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Faith is a way of seeing the world with new eyes.

From A History of God by Karen Armstrong

Science is a puzzle, and each element is a piece that helps us see the bigger picture.

From The Disappearing Spoon: Young Readers Edition by Sam Kean

When you think about it, we are all just bags of organs.

From Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

If you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything.

From The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

The divine is often depicted through the lens of human experiences and emotions.

From God: A Biography by Jack Miles

We need diverse perspectives in AI to create systems that work for everyone.

From T-Minus AI by Michael Kanaan

Thinking in models transforms our perspective.

From The Model Thinker by Scott E. Page

Faith is a way of seeing that transcends the intellect.

From The Case for God by Karen Armstrong

Eternity is a long time. But, at least it’s a long time.

From The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Humans are a fleeting presence in the vast timeline of Earth.

From The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

You are not the problem; the problem is the problem.

From Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.

From The Art of Living by Epictetus

In a world of abundance, scarcity is a mindset.

From The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

From Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

From The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.

From Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

What we think of as a problem is really an opportunity.

From The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

Understanding different perspectives can help make better decisions.

From The Great Mental Models Volume 1 by Shane Parrish

Challenges are just opportunities in disguise.

From Everything Is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

The great difficulty of history is that it is written by the victors.

From The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant

When we take a step back and look into the chaos, we can begin to see the truth of our lives.

From When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

In the cosmic ocean, we are but a drop.

From The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Every religion offers a unique lens through which to view the divine.

From God: A Biography by Jack Miles

Analysts must strive to create a comprehensive picture that incorporates diverse perspectives.

From The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.

The hedgehog and the fox represents the different ways of thinking about knowledge.

From The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin

The oppressed, having been denied rights, have a different perspective on the world.

From The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

If you want to be rich, you must be willing to be poor.

From A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

We need to develop a comprehensive and globally shared view of how technology is reshaping our lives.

From The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab

Understanding fungi can change our perspective on life.

From Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Each religion offers a unique lens through which to view the world.

From God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero

Sometimes you have to take a step back to see the bigger picture.

From More Myself by Alicia Keys

Every challenge is an opportunity in disguise.

From Out of the Ether by Matthew Leising

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

From The Enchiridion by Epictetus

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

It's not things that upset us, but our judgments about things.

From The Enchiridion by Epictetus

Each model offers a unique perspective on reality.

From The Model Thinker by Scott E. Page

The life we receive is not short, but we make it so.

From On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

What is at stake in a paradigm shift is not just a change of mind, but a change in the world.

From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

Those who dabble in many areas can find unexpected insights that specialists may miss.

From Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

Religion is not a separate compartment of life; it is a way of seeing the world.

From The World's Religions by Huston Smith

Our proximity to positivity can transform our mindset and outlook on life.

From The Power of Proximity by Michelle Warren

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

From The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton

A religion can be understood only in its own context.

From God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero

To be a champion, you have to see the big picture.

From Eleven Rings by Phil Jackson

Tactical empathy is understanding the perspective of the other side.

From Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Things are not bad in themselves, but our opinions about things make them so.

From The Art of Living by Epictetus

Historical perspectives are crucial for understanding contemporary economic challenges.

From The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon

Chemistry is often viewed through the lens of its most famous elements.

From The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

Our moral judgments are often like the blind men and the elephant.

From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

There is no such thing as failure. There are only lessons.

From What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey

When you change your thinking, you change your life.

From Everything Is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo

People began to see the world through a new lens of immediacy.

From The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

To be successful, one must look beyond the immediate.

From The Dao of Capital by Mark Spitznagel

Understanding the Gnostic perspective can enrich our view of early Christianity.

From The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

Happiness comes not from getting what we want, but from wanting what we have.

From The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long

The writer must have a strong point of view.

From On Writing Well by William Zinsser

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

From The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

Your unique perspective is your greatest asset.

From The Authenticity Principle by Ritu Bhasin

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

From When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

A clock that ticks for ten thousand years is a reminder of our place in time.

From The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand

Religions often start with a tribal focus and expand to a universal perspective.

From The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

Systems thinking is a way of seeing, a way of understanding the world.

From Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

The business is not the job of the owner but the job of the business.

From The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber

We are just a tiny speck in the vastness of everything.

From A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

From A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

A gene's-eye view of life emphasizes the role of the individual gene in evolution.

From The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

It changed the way people thought about space and time.

From The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

From Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Every generation has believed that the world was coming to an end.

From The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.

From What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

From Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Gratitude transforms what we have into enough.

From Out of the Ether by Matthew Leising

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet, going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away, and think this is normal is amazing.

From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The secret of happiness is to look at all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil that you have in your spoon.

From One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Children are not just miniature adults; they think differently.

From The Philosophical Baby by Alison Gopnik

If you want to change your life, you must change your mind.

From Finding Ultra by Rich Roll

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that matters.

From The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey

Specialization can limit your perspective; a broader view can lead to greater insights.

From Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein