You Make Your World

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
- Wayne Dyer

Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions.
When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts
than to change the preconceptions.
- Jessamyn West

Your world IS as you believe it is.
If you believe your world is a scary place, you are right.
If you believe your world is loving and supportive, you are also right.
You make your world with your attitude toward it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we see depends more on ourselves than on what is "out there." We see what we assume will be there. We see what we expect to be there. We see what we fear will be there. And we see what we wish will be there. Then we label what we "see" as fact.

Wherever there are disagreements and confrontations, there are at least two interpretations that are vehemently labeled as "fact." Almost everyone considers "I'm right, you're wrong," to be a fact - the only difference is to whom "I" and "you" refer. 

Further reading: What Is Reality?

Our Opinions

Choosing the World You Live In

Beauty is Everywhere

You are the Window

Practice Conscious Awareness

Prejudices

Assumptions

Opinions

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous

We see life through the fun-house mirrors of our own point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Stop Anger Before it Stops You

Perspective on the Past

Step Back from the Clamor

Choosing the World You Live In

You are the Window

New Eyes

Perspective

Facts

Opinions

Truth

Arguing

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
- Booth Tarkington

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
- Dale Carnegie

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
- A Course In Miracles

We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw

We cling to our own point of view,
as though everything depended on it.
Yet our opinions have no permanence;
like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
- Zhuangzi

Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Six Ways to End Bickering About Money

Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open

Assumptions

Question Your Questions

Disagreement

Opinions

Disagreement

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
- George Clooney

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

We see life through the fun-house mirrors of our own point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Stop Anger Before it Stops You

Six Ways to End Bickering About Money

Moderating the Anger Response

Argument

Point of View

Anger

Perspective

Values

Cooperation

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire

Share more, argue less. Thank more, resent less. Appreciate more, blame less.

Further reading: Six Ways to End Bickering About Money

Stop Anger Before it Stops You

Moderating the Anger Response Through Training

Five 30-Second Emotional Releases to De-Stress at Work

A Story of Money