Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

There's always two sides to the coin if you have the patience to see.

Patience expands your options. If you insist on immediate gratification, your choices are severely limited.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

When a painting problem crops up, don't rush to fix it. You probably already know one way to fix it, but wait for something else to show up... invite the muses to bring you a new solution.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.

when you have the reasons, reason!

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it, change the way you you think about it.

Sometimes stepping away from what you desire the most, is the best action to take: because it gives the process the momentum to take its own course.

Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

The line between patriot and terrorist is drawn by the historian.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.