Quotes About Perspective

You can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

You can't get old without living.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

Your biggest problem, is that you think the current problem you're facing is your problem

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states.

What we link to pleasure and what we link to pain determines our destiny.

My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

I'm not offended until you think I'm offended.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.