Quotes About Perspective

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

How would your values and priorities change if you were told you had only seven days to live?

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

Ouiser, you sound almost chipper. What happened today - you run over a small child or something?" ~Clairee (Steel Magnolias)

What would you do if you were me? she said. If I were you-you, or if I were you-me? If you were me-me. If I were you-you, he said, I'd do exactly what you're doing.

People say that God works in mysterious ways when they really mean that life, or something in their own lives, doesn't make any sense, but I think that's wrong. I think it means that we can't make any sense out of life until we give up our deepest hopes, until we stop trying to arrange everything to suit us. But once we do, or are forced to . . . That's what's mysterious.

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we've got.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance; what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

We read books. They make us think. It matters very little whether we agree with the books or not.

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)

Don't ask for a criticism until you are sure you can't give it yourself. Then you will be in a fine state to receive it.

Made me wonder whether putting names to time made much of a difference anyway. What did it measure? Not how much life passes. Hell no. Your whole life can pass and be changed in a second or in a century. Don't matter.

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Circumstances and situations do color life, but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so," wrote Shakespeare. For example:

Perception can make whatever picture the mind desires to see. Remember this. In this lies either Heaven or hell, as you elect. Manual

Nothing in the world can make you happy; everything in the world can encourage you to be happy.