Quotes About Perspective

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

Wir Menschen beklagen uns oft, dass der guten Tage so wenig sind und der schlimmen so viel - meist mit Unrecht. Wenn wir immer ein offenes Herz hätten, das Gute zu genießen, das Gott für jeden Tag bereitet, wir würden alsdann auch Kraft genug haben, das Übel zu ertragen, wenn es kommt.

It's irrelevant whether what one says is true or false: both will be contradicted.

Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer nah.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

It matters not how long we live but how.

Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Death is what makes life fun.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things.

With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

The great thing about getting older is living life.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life