Quotes About Perspective

When all else fails, pray for a fire drill.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice."

If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun.

Gray hair is a blessing - ask any bald man.

You know you're a skydiver when your friends look at the sky and say, "look at all those clouds," and you say, "look at all those holes!"

There's more to the truth than just the facts.

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.

Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey.

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

Old age… it's the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.

Only skydivers know why the birds sing. They never have to pack a parachute.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole.

Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes.

Walk not on the earth exultantly; certainly thou wilt never tear the earth open, nor attain the mountains in height.

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions.

One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.

It's not what you eat but who you are when you eat it.

Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything.

The view is better when it is earned.