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Quotes About Perspective

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
~ William James
So you have to take the good with the bad.
~ Candace Parker
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
~ James M. Beggs
Nobody's life is perfect and in the grand scheme of things, life is short. I think it's so important to live life to its fullest and choose to smile.
~ Tia Mowry
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
~ Jean Giraudoux
I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists
~ Sylvia Plath
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.
~ Ricky Gervais
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
~ John Ray
The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.
~ Zig Ziglar
What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.
~ George Henry Powell
Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.
~ Michael Clarke Duncan
The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
~ Ken Kesey
Ultimately, it's how you approach things in life that puts a smile on your face.
~ Daphne Oz
Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don't need money to smile or breathe. I would still be breathing if all my money disappeared tomorrow.
~ Aeriel Miranda
I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.
~ Jonathan Hull
Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.
~ Christine Feehan
Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?
~ Robert Adams
God? Nope." requel's smile told me she was joking around to make this easier for me "santa clause? No again.
~ Claudia Gray
Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
~ William Blake
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
~ Thomas Gray
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
~ Chris Cleave
I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?
~ Jessica Zafra