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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    “One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
    ― Tim Burton
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations
    tags: truth
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    Alphonse Karr
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
    ― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden
    tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns
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    George Carlin
    “Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
    I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: perspective
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    Bertrand Russell
    “In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
    ― Bertrand Russell
    tags: certainty, perspective, presumption, questioning
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: anger, ego, misinterpretation, misunderstand, misunderstandings, overthinking, pain, perception, perspective, questions, reading-into-everything, reading-into-things, second-quessing, self-esteem, self-improvement
    1058 likes

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  • #8
    Edmund Wilson
    “No two persons ever read the same book.”
    ― Edmund Wilson
    tags: books, perspective, reading
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
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    George Eliot
    “It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: narrow-mind, open-mindedness, perspective
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    Isaac Asimov
    “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
    ― Isaac Asimov, I, Robot
    tags: common-sense, perspective, philosophers
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
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    John Irving
    “We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
    ― John Irving, Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
    tags: mistakes, perspective, revelation, self-discovery
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  • #14
    Dan Brown
    “Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
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    Michelle Hodkin
    “There is no truth," Stephanie said mysterously. "Only perspectives.”
    ― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
    tags: truth
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: a-different-perspective, happiness, inspirational-life, inspirational-living, inspirational-quotes, life-and-living, perspective
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    Joel Osteen
    “We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.”
    ― Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
    tags: ideas, moving-on, stuck, thinking
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    C.S. Lewis
    “For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew
    tags: perspective
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    Doris Kearns Goodwin
    “Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.”
    ― Doris Kearns Goodwin
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    Diane Setterfield
    “I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
    tags: perspective, reality
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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  • #22
    Toba Beta
    “We begin to learn wisely when we're willing
    to see world from other people's perspective.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: learn, others, perspective, point-of-view, willing-to-see, wisely
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assumptions, bias, brainwashed, coheresed, critics, guessing, judging, life-experience, life-experiences, limited-knowledge, limited-perspective, not-enough-information, not-knowing, opinions, pressured, upbringing, view
    135 likes

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  • #24
    David J. Schwartz
    “Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.”
    ― David Schwartz
    tags: conquering-defeat, optimism, perspective
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  • #25
    Cormac McCarthy
    “I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
    tags: closeness, distance, perspective
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    Nikki Turner
    “Sometimes two people could look at the same picture and see different images. Position determines perspective.”
    ― Nikki Turner, Natural Born Hustler
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give—the ability to influence.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: acting, altruism, authors, blogs, charity-organizations, community-service, counselors, documentary, freethinkers, givers, healers, health-careers, influence, life-coach, magnify-your-talents, movies, news, newspapers, overthinkers, pastors, philosophy, preachers, psychologists, psychology, public-education, public-speakers, service, speakers, talents, television, theatre, therapists, thinkers, websites, writers
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    Lena Coakley
    “You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.”
    ― Lena Coakley, Witchlanders
    tags: perspective, philosophical
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    Steve Goodier
    “We don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Only notes that are different can harmonize. The same is true with people.”
    ― Steve Goodier
    tags: agreement, conflict, conflict-resolution, differences, different-perspective, diversity, getting-along, harmony, opinions
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  • #30
    Jean Webster
    “‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.”
    ― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs
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