Quotes About Perspective

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

Don't quote me; that's what you heard, not what I said.

Expect nothing and life will be velvet.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

The way to achieve happiness is to have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else.

No one is happy all his life long.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.

When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.

Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting.

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Hindsight is always zo/20.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.