Quotes About Perspective

Whether women are better than men I cannot say ... but i can say they are certainly no worse.

In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third']

Come to think of it, I am more than a little tired of hearing about how the Jews 'stole' land from Arabs in Palestine. The facts are quite different. A lot of good money changed hands, and a lot of Arabs became very rich indeed.

Empathy is just another way to talk about yourself.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy.

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

Those are nearer to reality who can deal with it light-heartedly, because they know it to be inexhaustible.

I've seen enough now, to know that beautiful things don't always stay that way.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

Negative people focus on what a problem has DONE TO THEM. Positive people focus on what THEY HAVE LEARNT from it.

You cannot change your reality if you think someone else is responsible for it.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

My plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight...I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

We've got to have a little humor in our lives. You had better take seriously that which should be taken seriously but, at the same time, we can bring in a touch of humor now and again. If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.

I can no longer remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.

So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat, or we can talk ourselves into victory.

Historians must, of course, present both sides of the argument, but they do not have to be neutral. I hope that I have treated the facts, as far as they can be determined with accuracy, as sacred, but I cannot hide my conviction

Everyone has a theology [that is, some rudimentary view of God and the world on the basis of which they live]; the question is not whether you have a theology—you do—but whether you have a good one.

Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective--on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely in facing the future?

There are so many ways to tell time-one way with clocks and watches and sunsets, or other ways with how many times a person laughs, or what they forget, or how they change their minds about what they care about, or why, or whom.

Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big.