Quotes About Perspective

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Don't worry about middle age ?????

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.

You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.

Man must realize that improvement of the quality of experience is more important than the acquisition of useless artifacts and material possessions.

From here you don't see any borders," he said. "Lines on a map. Amazing that we pay them so much attention.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimulates every thing to itself as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

so long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,--pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

I did not know it would be like this," complained Viviana. "I hate slugs." "They like you," said Caitri, subtracting one from Viviana's sleeve. "Anyway, you said you wanted to come," she added primly. "I said I wanted to come but I never said I would not grumble.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..