Quotes About Perspective

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?

Success is not measured by bestseller lists. Certain types of great books sell very well; other types of great books don't sell a lot. But they're both great.

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.

Those who are born with a silver spoon,' Emmanuel said, 'those who have never needed anything, do not understand what happiness is, any more than those who do not know the blessing of a clear sky and who have never entrusted their lives to four planks tossing on a raging sea.

The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.

passion can blind even those who are ordinarily the most clear-headed.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.

As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.

Before we are alarmed, we see correctly; when we are alarmed, we see double; and when we have been alarmed, we see nothing but trouble.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We

Oh, what is man!' d'Avrigny muttered. 'The most egoistical of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who cannot believe otherwise than that the earth revolves, the sun shines and death reaps for him alone – an ant, cursing God from the summit of a blade of grass!

it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers.

If I am happy in an error, do not have the cruelty to lift me from it.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.

One must take the world as one finds it.

Kahdella tapaa voi ihminen katsella, ruumiin ja sielun silmillä. Ruumiillinen silmä voi toisinaan unohtaa, sielun silmä ei koskaan.

Onko maailma sitten täynnä tiikereitä ja krokotiileja? - On. Mutta kaksijalkaiset tiikerit ja krokotiilit ovat vaarallisempia kuin nelijalkaiset.

it is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!" "What

the more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation.