Quotes About Perspective

I learned a long time ago we've control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn't belong to us. It's out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.

Jonathan closed his eyes. Oh, God, it's not the way I had things planned. But then, what of real, lasting value ever is?

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heaven. MILTON

I think about what I've lost instead of thinking about what I have.

You've had more than your share of heartache, honey, but sometimes what looks like a gift is a gift.

La mente tiene su propio lugar, y en sí misma puede hacer un cielo del infierno o un infierno del cielo. MILTON

Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

All he'd done was change scenery, not his mind.

Right now love doesn't have an awful lot to do with feelings

For some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty

Not many years ago there were people in this country who would tell you that there are no absolute moral principles and that we should not presume to impose our principles on others, but of course the Vietnam War was absolutely immoral.

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him. Francis Parkman

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

Pe vremea cand eram mai tanar si mai influen?abil, tata mi-a dat un sfat care de atunci mi-a ramas prezent in minte. -Ori de cate ori ai pofta sa critici pe cineva, mi-a spus, ?ine seama ca nu to?i oamenii au avut avantajele de care te-ai bucurat tu.

Uno no puede saber nunca el lugar que ocupa realmente en la vida de otra persona.

Cuando yo era más joven y más vulnerable, mi padre me dio un consejo en el que no he dejado de pensar desde entonces. «Antes de criticar a nadie», me dijo, «recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las ventajas que has tenido tú».

Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è mai più uscito di mente. Quando ti vien voglia di criticare qualcuno mi disse ricordati che non tutti a questo mondo hanno avuto i vantaggi che hai avuto tu.

Jei kada nor?si k? pasmerkti, prisimink, jog ne visi žmon?s tur?jo toki? galimybi?, koki? tur?jai tu.

So when the atheist bus comes by, and tells you that there's probably no God so you should stop worrying and enjoy your life, the slogan is not just bitterly inappropriate in mood. What it means, if it's true, is that anyone who isn't enjoying themselves is entirely on their own.

You say halfer as if it's a terrible thing, he said. But everyone I've ever known has been a halfer; if old enough t-to be called an adult, then ch-childish in their prejudices. All of us in the world really, I take to be h-halfers- half human, half divine, halfers of the best sort. I'd think the s-same must be true for the people of Wonderland, that there's...there is no such thing as s-someone who is not a halfer, or even a quarter-er, if you'll allow me the inelegant term.

What's the rush, little fellow?" asked Bibwit Harte. "What seems to be the trouble?" "You're the little fellow!" Jack said. "Hmm, well…in the grand scheme of the cosmos, I am a little fellow. We're all quite little, if you think about it that way. Good point, Jack.

contentment has to do with what we accept, what we expect and what we measure our current situations against.

what determined people's happiness wasn't their physical conditions or capabilities but what they paid attention to, what they emphasized, what they accomplished within the possibilities available to them.

Sometimes a limit or a loss is, as I mentioned in an earlier chapter, a gateway to experiments that you wouldn't have sought, skills that you wouldn't have acquired, insights that you wouldn't have gleaned. You just have to allow for that prospect and finesse that perspective.