Quotes About Perspective

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see behind a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.

A man who thinks about business continually for eight hours is injuring his productive potential as much as he is abusing his body, cramping his mind, and ultimately losing his sense of humor and perspective... When work presses down most heavily, a 10-minute walk or a quiet cup of coffee with a crossword puzzle can restore efficiency to an amazing degree...

Marcie: How can you pig-out on all that junk food every day, sir? Peppermint Patty: Life is more than carrot sticks, Marcie.

Everything I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be a deadly poison. Everything I don't eat has been proved indispensable to life!

Sometimes people will hear you better if you speak with a voice of compassion instead of authority. They long to be understood more than to be lectured.

In trying to get our own way, we should remember that kisses are sweeter than whine.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.

Life: What you choose to make it.

Life: An affirmative between two negatives.

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion.

I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in.

I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

Sometimes just looking up and seeing the light is enough.

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today.

Love blinds the eyes and only regret will open them.

I don't suffer from insanity — I enjoy every minute of it.