Quotes About Perspective

Le secret du bonheur était de vivre en jugeant le présent avec la même sérénité que s'il s'agissait déjà du passé.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system I definitely want to be unplugged. But not until I'm down to a size eight.

The minority is always right.

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

Vad är det som formar ett barn? De lyckliga eller de olyckliga stunderna. Om ett barn bara kommer ihåg de lyckliga stunderna är det möjligt att barnet kommer ihåg dem för att de var så få och då kan man väl säga att barndomen inte var lycklig. Och tvärtom, förstås.

Klag ikke under stjernene over mangel på lyspunkter i ditt liv

Klag ikke under Stjernerne over Mangel paa lyse Punkter i dit Liv.

All bold, great actions that are seen too near, Look rash and foolish to unthinking eyes; But at a distance they at once appear In their true grandeur.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Sometimes the greatest kindness we could receive would be to have someone expect more from us than we do, because they see more clearly our divine heritage.

The children of God have more in common than they have differences. And even the differences can be seen as an opportunity. God will help us see a difference in someone else not as a source of irritation but as a contribution.

Some murmur when the sky is clear and wholly bright to view, if one small speck of dark appear in their great heaven of blue: And some with thankful love are filled, if but one streak of light, one ray of God's good mercy, gild the darkness of their night.

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.

He had however one great advantage over both his Pilgrim and Puritan enemies, for he wrote a narrative of his adventures in a reckless and amusing fashion of which they were incapable, and thus has kept the laugh forever on his side.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

A man may stand there [Cape Cod] and put all America behind him.

Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.