Quotes About Perspective

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso, those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am, then I won't see it.

A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.

Everyone likes to think that he has done reasonably well in life, so that it comes as a shock to find our children believing differently. The temptation is to tune them out; it takes much more courage to listen.

The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce, who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

The "C" students run the world.