Pico Iyer Quotes

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven

The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things

I think perception is important.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Our personal dispositions are as windowpanes through which we see the world either as rosy or dull. The way we color the glasses we wear is the way the world seems to us.

There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it’s up to you to decide how you’re going to approach the world…how you’re going to live in it, and what you’re going to do.

I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

What you see determines how you interpret the world, which in turn influences what you expect of the world and how you expect the story of your life to unfold.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

The way you see your life shapes your life.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

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.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.

Everything is but what we think it.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.