Quotes About Perspective

When told the reason for Daylight Saving Time the old Indian said, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

often a mountain decision is a molehill in retrospect— and sometimes vice versa later on when we reflect

But let not our thoughts be only of happiness. For does not the old Arab proverb — "all sunshine makes a desert" — faithfully remind us that the cloud and the storm are likewise needed for the most complete and satisfactory results?

If you really want to be depressed, weigh yourself in grams.

It's not what you eat but who you are when you eat it.

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall.

I'm in shape. Round is a shape — isn't it?

Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

Don't argue with an 18-wheeler.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

The view is better when it is earned.

Happiness is lost by criticising it; sorrow by accepting it.

My mind is a seed packet of assorted wildflowers — I get happiness and sadness and whatever else pops up.

Before God we are relatively all equally wise — equally foolish.

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived — forwards.

Life isn't a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, you're probably just drunk.

Fear has big eyes.

You might be a firefighter if you had to extricate someone by cutting the car doors off on one side and realized there was nothing wrong with the doors on the other side.

Even if you've been fishing for three hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm.

Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.

Religions are like farts — yours is good but everyone else's stinks.