Quotes About Perspective

For you, being patriotic may mean protesting against an unjust war and being willing to go to jail to save your country from a costly mistake. Which one of us is patriotic? Both of us. We just think differently about what is best for the country. And the reason we think differently is because each of us is operating under a different framework,

Then the higher self operates from the future, as we understand things. In other words, my higher self would operate from what I consider to be my future? Is this correct? Ra I am Ra. From the standpoint of your space/time, this is correct.

Love isn't blind, it's retarded.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

When people complained, Vichy, unconvincingly, sought to justify its moves by pointing out that one of the reasons France lost the war was that it had too many bars, one bar for every 80 persons compared with one for every 270 people in Germany.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.

the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.

From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.

i look back on my life and it seems to me to be just one damned kitten after another

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.

It's about ten times the size of the Bible — and unlike the Bible, contains no good news.