J. B. Priestley Quotes

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

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

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.

The world is as you are.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

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

No two people see things the same way.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.