^"--The difference between an observation, viewpoint, belief, &
   opinion

   observation - is the facts that you observe
   viewpoint - is when you attach meaning to those ideas/facts
   belief - is when you "implement" a viewpoint and you are
   "convinced"
   opinion - is a bunch of viewpoints along with beliefs,
   connections, & speculation

   Change the meaning by changing the viewpoint.

   You can test this out by attaching different meaning to ideas,
   then you will eventually get better at attaching the meaning
   that you want to attach."

   (from http://www.mind-programming.com/ - a great website that I
   had forgotten about. Its Giant List of Emotions is especially
   worth looking at - there are things that you never thought of as
   emotions that are, in fact emotions)^