Quotes About Perspective

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.

Trying to reason with kids who are emotionally upset is a waste of good air.

Kids have minds of their own. They want to exert their independence and do their own thinking. They blow off the things that are forced onto them and embrace the things they want to believe. If we want to pass our values down to them, we must present those values in a way our kids can accept: in our actions and words. Kids' values come from what they see and hear. They don't accept what we try to drive into their heads through lecturing.

how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

I think it was Socrates who said if you can't win a one-way argument, just pretend that you can read your opponent's mind.

Sometimes people that are standing on third base think they hit a triple. But they didn't.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

Everyday I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

Embrace personal culture shifts. Look at every experience as something that happens for you, not to you.

Embracing experiences as opportunities allows us to bring fresh perspectives to the party. And that can be incredibly empowering.

If you think things cannot get worse, it is probably because you lack sufficient imagination.

Lives like sponges:half sponge, half filled with something else.

The more we blame others or external circumstances, the more negative and compromised our energy is likely to be.

In his Treatise on Painting, da Vinci wrote, "It is a very good plan every now and then to go away and have a little relaxation. . . . When you come back to the work your judgment will be surer, since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose the power of judgment.

I could put my thumb up to a window and completely hide the Earth. I thought, 'Everything I've ever known is behind my thumb.

Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside.