Quotes About Perspective

No man is blest who does not think it so.

We should follow our own humour more in dying than in any other business.

We may not be able to control life's circumstances, but we always have a choice about how we use our minds to respond to them.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. . . . To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion, "Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?" There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game. . . . One should not search for an abstract meaning of life.

You possess one piece of the "good." It would only be arrogance to think any of us should have it all.

they understand what you think is its value, you can let them make up their own mind.

Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?

When the extraverted were with someone who was highly introverted, they liked not having to be so cheerful. And the introverted found conversing with the extraverted "a breath of fresh air." The picture we gain from Thorne is that each type contributes something to this world that is equally important.

Stimulation is even more complicated because the same stimulus can have different meanings for different people. A crowded shopping mall at Christmastime may remind one person of happy family shopping excursions and create a warm holiday spirit. But another person may have been forced to go shopping with others, tried to buy gifts without enough money and no idea of what to purchase, had unhappy memories of past holidays, and so suffers intensely in malls at Christmas.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Education is...A form of self-delusion.

We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

A miracle is an event described by those to whom it was told by people who did not see it.

Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls into the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.