Quotes About Perspective

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Happiness is overrated. It comes and goes just like sadness and miseryboth fleeting. What's important is peace. With all.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.