Quotes About Perspective

Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

... there are few things that can reconcile us fully to our parting with a world of which the longest life can see so little and whose beauties have so extraordinary a variety.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.

Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life.

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

I'm 83 and a half years old and I feel fine. I feel like a teenager but I'm unable to do a lot of the things that I used to do but I enjoy life to the fullest.

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

I barely got out of high school and I look back at my life often and go, "Wow, this was awesome!"