Quotes About Perspective

Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

The worst is not so long as we can say, "This is the worst."

When you first learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart, you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

I quote others in order to better express my own self.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad things you did do - well, that's memoirs.

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.

Now as through this world I ramble, I see lots of funny men, Some rob you with a six gun Some with a fountain pen.

A memorandum is written to protect the writer - not to inform his reader.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelette and the intolerable, so with autobiography.