Gary Zukav Quotes

I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.

Life is not to be taken seriously.

I have this very simple logic about life that it should not be taken too seriously.

The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures.

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.

"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

My kids and I figured out that there’s a third kind of person, and I don’t know what you call them, but it’s somebody who sees that the glass is always full because it’s half full with water and half full with nothing, so that’s the third kind of person. I don’t know what it is.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others may percieve as negative into something positive.

No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do, and you will be surprised that all ambiguity disappears. It is a by-product of the chooser's mind, the choosing mind, that creates ambiguity. Otherwise there is no dilemma. Negative and positive are perfectly balancing in life.

Life is a b*tch depending how you dress her.

The outcome of your life will be determined by your outlook on life.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.

Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.