Top 200 Perspective Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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2. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

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3. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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4. “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu

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5. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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6. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

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7. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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8. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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9. “Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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10. “Because you are alive, everything is possible.”

— Nhat Hanh

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11. “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

— William James

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12. “Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”

— Carl Sagan

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13. “We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

— Carl Sagan

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14. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

— Harper Lee

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15. “What you focus on grows.”

— Esther Hicks

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16. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Moving On Quotes

17. “All birds find shelter during rain. But the eagle avoids the rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.”

— Abdul Kalam

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18. “What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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19. “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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20. “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

— Anaïs Nin

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21. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

— Bertrand Russell

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Time Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

22. “We only get to play this game one time, one life.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Also featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

23. “If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Buddhist Quotes

24. “Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”

— Alan Watts

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25. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”

— Terry Pratchett

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Travel Quotes

26. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Smart Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

27. “There is nothing more powerful than a changed mind.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Change Quotes, Mind Quotes

28. “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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29. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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30. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

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31. “The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?”

— Henry Ford

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32. “There are no facts, only interpretations.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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33. “Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

— Alan Watts

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34. “Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Also featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

35. “A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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36. “Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Mind Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Adversity Quotes

37. “If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?”

— Confucius

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38. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

— J.K. Rowling

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39. “All limits exist only in the mind, and it is only in the mind that they can be overcome.”

— Alan Cohen

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40. “Here’s to the future, because I’m done with the past.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Future Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

41. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

— Jack Kerouac

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Future Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Travel Quotes

42. “The journey is what brings us happiness, not the destination.”

— Dan Millman

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43. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

— William James

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Mind Quotes

44. “What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Quotes About Thinking

45. “You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes, Soul Quotes

46. “I dwell in possibility.”

— Emily Dickinson

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47. “God has no religion.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

48. “Enjoy life – you only get one.”

— Richard Branson

Also featured in: Life Is Short Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Meaning of Life Quotes

49. “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

— Alan Watts

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50. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”

— Muhammad Ali

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