Quotes About Perspective

I knew it," cried Helen. "I told you so. It is the little things one bungles at. The big, real ones are nothing when they come.

I start laughing. You have to laugh. Life is just funny sometimes. As long as you remember.

I always thought that my airplane conveyed a silent sermon. To the earthbound observer, its silhouette was the shape of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

One person's Utopia usually means another person's hell. We live in a state of uncertainty, not just in Northern Ireland, but by virtue of being human.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free; our mind, our soul, our body, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends. All these priceless possessions are free, but the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed.

You are what you think about.

as you believe so shall it be done unto you.

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.

We become what we think!" (Philippians 4:8,9)

WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT

It is our attitude toward life that determines life's attitude toward us. We get back what we put out.

Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: "A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

The great law briefly and simply stated is: If you think in negative terms, you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.