“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.” LifeLife IsAttitudePerspectiveDependsLife LessonWeight LossPolishGrindGrindstone Author:Thomas Holcroft
“Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens.” ThinkingLifeReasonFacesStarsSimpleAnswersImpossibleFailingPerspectiveComplexesMindsetContraryStaringMeaning Of LifeDirtLensesLungsThoughts On LifeTelescopesSpecks Author:Jason Calacanis
“Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.” LifeEarthLinesAlivePerspectiveLuckyNormalSpringPercentDiedWinnerDawnMisfortunesCosmicAncestorOrganismsLiving ThingsOffspringUnbroken Author:Daniel Dennett
“No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.” LifeInspirationalMayDoneInspirationLife IsVisionSadnessInspirational LifePerspectiveFineMountainGardenFarmsValleysOrchardNew PerspectivePlowing Author:Arthur Gordon Webster
“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.” LifePerspectiveBlessedThanksgivingSpirit Of Life Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.” ThinkingWorldLifeGivingEnjoyGrowing UpGrowingPerspectiveCanada Author:Ryan Gosling
“I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.” PeopleLifeRealGrowthPerspectiveIntegrityJudgmentAskingPersonal GrowthInvestingDespiseUnproductiveUnethical Author:Ray Dalio