Quotes About Perspective

I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

However mean your life is, meet and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.

Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Vi løskjøper oss fra synet av elendighet ved hjelp av kobberskillinger, men det er fordyrt fortiggerenogfor billig for oss

The best way to get to heaven is to take it with you.

I've made a picture of the world. It may be right. It may be wrong. But for me it is very real ...

Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

History is more or less bunk.

The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?

Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.

New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.