Quotes About Perspective

If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier

In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years.

You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice Because the thorns have a rose.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today among us human creatures, and all professing to love liberty.

When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same.

Don't criticise the; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Die meisten Menschen sind so glücklich, wie sie sein wollen.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Mensen zijn even gelukkig als ze besluiten te zijn.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. --April 18, 1864 Address at Baltimore

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Las personas son tan felices como transforman sus mentes para serlo (Abraham Lincoln)

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.

I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly.

When I see it, this is what I see.

Solo hace falta un mal día para sumir al hombre mas cuerdo del mundo en la locura! Así de lejos esta el mundo de donde estoy yo, a solo un mal día

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

sometimes crazy uncles—from Samuel Johnson to G. K. Chesterton.

That's right: No one cares! People have troubles of their own! It's okay. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it; it means you should do it, somehow, for its own sake, without illusions. Just write, just live, and don't care too much yourself. No one cares. It's just banter.