Quotes About Perspective

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

Live your life, not your age.

Change your thoughts and you change the world

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you. Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you start to deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you.

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

Change your thoughts and change your world.

Positive thinking is looking at events with the knowledge that there will be both good and bad in life, but that it is better to emphasize the good. And as you do that, good seems to increase.

We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense.

For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.

Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. Carry this with you on your journey, he said softly, for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.