Quotes About Perspective

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.

I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.