Quotes About Perspective

Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.

It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

Enjoy every moment because life is too short to fret over hardships.

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.

Every little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change – we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

I don't believe in love at first sight.

Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage.

People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences, but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime.

"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!"

"Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window."

"I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?"

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.

Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice!

I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans – people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

Summer is always best through a window.