Quotes About Perspective

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Poetry is a mug's game.

One man's meat is another's poison.

One of the luxuries of a politican's life is that you see yourself as others see you.

A Liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

Optimism is an intellectual choice.

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation.