Quotes About Perspective

Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Though life is made up of mere bubbles, 'Tis better than many aver, For while we've a whole lot of troubles, The most of them never occur.

Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

One's outlook is a part of his virtue.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

The artist doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

Wealth ... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more.

Sometimes when you have everything, you can't really tell what matters.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.