Quotes About Perspective

Middle age is a winding path through kaleidoscopic years.

Age 29. Women. — It sometimes happens, that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.

When we're drinking the world makes so much sense, but as soon as we sober up it returns to chaos and confusion.

We're all kissed by angels but some of us never think to pucker.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love...

I turned off my tape-recorder and just sat looking at him for a moment, this strange time-traveller from the year 1890 or so, who remembered when there were no cars, no electric lights, no airplanes, no state of Arizona.

Art doesn't have to matter to a lot of people to matter a lot.

[S]ometimes, for an artist chronic pain can be a gift.

My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

Whatever is — is best.

Positive thinking does not mean trying to create something that is not there. Real positive thinking acknowledges that good already exists — indeed it is all that exists.

You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.

Look for something positive in every day, even if some days you have to look a little harder.

Always remember lost, so that you don't take for granted found.

If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won't enjoy the destination.

It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy.

Clouds or no clouds, life is grand — be grateful for all the varieties of weather in your life.

Don't say it's all going to be good again someday. It's still good now — if you really look.

If it's worth getting upset over, then go ahead, but is it really?

August is one of the hottest months of the northern year, so hold your breath and see that the fan is in order. It is also one of the longest months, and sometimes it seems even longer.

Better to have bad breath than no breath at all.

You must have crossed the river before you may tell the crocodile it has bad breath.

Frazz: My ancestors said, "There's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing." Caulfield: You told me it was no bad weather, just insufficient espresso. Frazz: That's what my descendants will say their ancestors said.

And she was always cold toward bats, too, and could not bear them; and yet I think a bat is as friendly a bird as there is.