Quotes About Perspective

Life will magnify what you choose to believe.

Just because something is unbelievable does not mean you shouldn't believe it. Put another way, some things are worth believing in whether they're true or not.

Birds sing sweetly, but someone awakened by them at 5 A.M. of a summer morning might dispute the adverb.

Better bread with water than cake with trouble.

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate...

If we gaze at the clouds, then close our eyes for a few minutes, then re-open them and the clouds are different, we don't freak out about it. So, why do we worry when things shift and change in our lives? New day, new sky, every moment too.

What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are, if indeed you cannot get it above them, than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Come up here, you dream people. You're cloud-gazing. Have a look at something else than vapor.

The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.

It is an absolute fact that shadows are as much colours as lights are...

God help me... that I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.

One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.

One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Even if you have countless blessings, it's good to count them anyway.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.

How many troubles have they witnessed! Troubles, — ah, but how many mercies too! Think of THESE. Troubles and mercies, — which were most in number in the ten years passed? You can count your troubles, can you count your blessings? Are you willing, in the next ten years, to make this exchange: to let the troubles of the past ten years be the measure of your mercies in the next ten years; and to let the mercies of the past ten years be the measure of your troubles in coming ten?

You can't count the bad things that happen. They don't count against life. They are life. Only count the good things. Let every blessing strengthen you.

...after having read for twelve months what these critics say I meant to say in the poem, it seems to me that I may be allowed to express my own opinion...

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

the lights of a distant city seem star-like and pretty but move closer into sight they engulf the whole night

It was a hard sell, since he's a database person, and as far as I've seen, once those database worms eat into your brain, it's hard to ever get anything practical done again. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

One man's daydreaming is another man's day.