Quotes About Perspective

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, "This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!" And each day, it's up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, "No. This is what's important." —IAIN THOMAS

Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

And whenever I'd complain or was upset about something in my own life, my mother had the same advice: "Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say "so what." That's one of my favorite things to say. —ANDY WARHOL

just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

History is so indifferently rich that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.

If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.

I'll never believe that money is everything.

It is what it is and it's okay. I'll be okay, you'll be okay, and the world will keep turning.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.

The old are in a second childhood.

How can I study from below, that which is above?

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day

One swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

One swallow does not make a summer.

I was high on life, but eventually I built up a tolerance.

One man's imagined community is another man's political prison.

Every unhappy person thinks her unhappiness is unique.

I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of this tale, a person with history. I had no story of my own. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other people's lives.

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

Instead of putting people in boxes, we need to stop and listen to their stories.

Conservatives of yesterday seem moderate or liberal to us today.