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Quotes About Perspective

...but people become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them...
~ Bernard Shaw
If you eat the whole cake without cutting it into slices, then technically you've only had one piece.
~ Author Unknown
Criminal Minds, Believer: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
~ Oscar Wilde
What if when you die, they ask "How was heaven?"
~ Author Unknown
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
~ Latin proverb
If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.
~ Jack Fyock
A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.
~ Jewish Saying
The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world.
~ Japanese Proverb
Every once in a while, turn life over to see what it looks like from the other side.
~ Terri Guillemets
While his eyes saw the sky, his soul saw Heaven.
~ K. Smith
In reality, plants are farming humans — giving us oxygen until we eventually decompose so they can consume us.
~ Author unknown, c. 2007
Sometimes we must unfocus our way to clarity.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sometimes we don't look up unless we have a reason to. And then it all becomes clear.
~ Terri Guillemets
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
~ Author Unknown
All we can see is reality filtered with self.
~ Terri Guillemets, "View," 1991
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
~ Japanese Proverb
There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth.
~ Author Unknown
One man's quiet is another man's din.
~ Terri Guillemets
Christyan Scientists think they'se no such thing as disease, an' doctors think there ain't annythin' else.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
I haven't cut my hair since the quarantine began. Today I stepped on the scale for the first time in a while. Who knew that hair weighs so much?!
~ Author unknown, summer 2020
Remember wishing the weekend would last forever? Are you happy now?!
~ Internet meme, March 2020
Today is the longest day of the year—but anymore, every day is.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Diary, 2003
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the years as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.
~ Charles Richards, 1930s
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
~ Scottish Proverb