Quotes About Perspective

One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.

How do you achieve success? Well, for one thing, you don't define it before you achieve it.

I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

Life is too short to hold a grudge, also too long.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.