perspective

  • There is beauty in your grief

    A new perspective...

    Grief is a beautiful and tragic thing.

    Many good things come to an end but that doesn’t mean it’s your end.

    Sometimes loss is necessary for gain.

    Finding gifts in grief isn’t ideal but it’s what we receive.

    A new perspective in life.

    A deeper understanding of ourselves.

    The sunshine after the rain

    Shattered in pieces, broken like a mosaic—there is beauty in your grief and beauty in your heartache.

    It won’t always be pretty but with the passing sands of time and softening of sorrow, there is a pearl of truth.

    There is life after death and sunshine after rain.

    love & positivity ✨ phi

    📖 The Great Unlearning

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  • Perspective, another point of view

    On perspective

    Perspective is way of seeing something. It is shaped by our upbringing, values and life experiences.

    It is another point of view.

    Our thoughts can change our perspective and how we see the world.

    It will be your prison or your passport.

    It is important to consider how everyone’s perspective is different, they are unique to us as is a fingerprint.

    When we consume media, we are experiencing and feeling actions and events unfold from the perspective of a character.

    When we consider another person’s perspective, we broaden and expand our horizons.

    We become aware and conscious of how we feel and perceive something to be.

    We become aware of the fact that a truth may not exist because everything is perspective.

    We become aware of our reality.

    Quotes to evoke thought on perspective

    When things don’t happen the way we want them to, it may be a blessing in disguise

    Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a remarkable stroke of luck

    Dalai Lama

    It’s how we choose to see something

    “The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.”

    Oscar Wilde

    Our perspective gives meaning to the world around us

    “Songs are as sad as the listener.”

    Jonathan Safran Foer

    Perspective shapes the world we live in

    “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”

    Wayne W. Dyer

    Our mindset plays a powerful role in our perspective

    “What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.”

    Gary Zukav

    We can choose to see what happens to us as for our higher good, our growth, our personal development.

    “Nothing happens to you, it happens for you. See the positive in negative events.”

    Joel Osteen

    Sometimes the only control we have is in our perspective.

    “The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

    CHRIS PINE

    It is easy to see a negative perspective and harder to have a positive perspective

    “It’s so easy to look around and notice what’s wrong. It takes practice to see what’s right.”

    Melody Beattie

    Perspective shapes our direction

    “Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.”

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Be open to other perspectives

    “If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

    ABRAHAM MASLOW

    How others perceive you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them

    “Your perception of me is a reflection of you.”

    LOUIS ARMSTRONG

    “We can’t choose the filters that others choose when they look at us.”

    anon

    Thinking of other peoples perspectives can provide clarity

    “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

    Perspective can help us with empathy

    “Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms.”

    Sterling K. Brown

    Perspective helps us differentiate and to form a point of view

    “Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.”

    John Sununu

    Additional resources on perspective, other points of view

    3 counter intuitive ways to take on another person’s point of view – PsychologyCompass

    Perspectives in Modern Psychology – Kendra Cherry, Verywellmind

    Learning to see things from another’s perspective – David Chan, The Strait Times

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  • Your perspective will either be your prison or passport

    “Your perspective will either become your prison or your passport. It will either confine you to the way things are, or launch you into the way things are meant to be.”

    Steven Furtick

    What is this quote trying to tell us abut perspective?

    We know perspective is another point of view. The quote shows us the power of our mindset, how we decide to see what is going on.

    When we think of prisons, it evokes feelings of being trapped, deprivation of freedom, a tough environment to thrive in.

    Will you allow your perspective to make you feel as if there is no hope, no value, no purpose? As if you are trapped in your own prison?

    You will feel that you are at the mercy of what is going on. External circumstances that you cannot control.

    That it is happening to you and you are a victim.

    On the other hand, your perspective can be your passport. It will take you places.

    A passport opens up freedom, adventure, vitality!

    When we travel, we undertake personal development and self growth. We open our mind, heart and soul. We see the world in a new way. We expand our knowledge. We broaden our horizon. We thrive in the unknown and embrace ambiguity. We become more confident in ourselves. We reinvent ourselves. We experience unforgettable moments.

    Our mind becomes sharpened.

    As you can see it is a vibrant environment – full of passion and life.

    As we have pondered before, change your thoughts and you change your world.

    How will you choose to view your circumstances?

    Inspirational quotes on perspective

    “The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”

    Aung San Suu Kyi

    “No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.”

    BUDDHA

    “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery

    “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

    Aldous Huxley

    “Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.”

    Joni Eareckson Tada

    More reading

    The Transformative Power of Perspective – Uplift

    The Amazing Power of Perspective – Susan Lasky

    The Power of Perspective – Huffpost

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