Quotes About Perspective

I like listening to old music and collecting the odd artifact from those times but I can't just stay in one time period for too long. For me, that's leaning too far back into a couch and recounting war stories to your vet friends because they know what you know. That's basically saying that it's all over and now you're just going to recline ever further into the decaying echo of the past. No way, Fanatic. That's surrender and I can't do it.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Treat the other man's faith gently it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.

The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view (if I may so say) of the Universe, than the good of any other; unless, that is, there are special grounds for believing that more good is likely to be realized in the one case than in the other.

A sin is two sins when it is defended.

Harald said, 'In England, in the south, there is a circle of great stones, about which men say the same thing. It was there before the Romans came, and it will be there when Odin decides to crumble the world in his two great hands. There are some such monuments which are meant to teach man that he is but a little thing, with a life hardly longer than that of a spring fly.

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.

I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cowcumber, flung carelessly on a wood pile to ripen, than tew be an old bachelor.

Menny people spend their time trieing tew find the hole whare sin got into this world--if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole tew git out, rather than git into a long argument about the hole they cum tew fall in.

I wouldn't undertake tew korrekt a mans sektarian views enny quicker than i would tell him which road tew take at a 4 corners, when i didn't know miself which waz the right one.

We know how much corn they [i.e., the enslaved people on Hairston plantations] ate, but do not know how they felt to see the sun rise.

Hank, you need to be positive about things. Why don't you try looking at your cup as half full?" "Dad, I'm looking in my cup, and at this moment, I can't see any liquid whatsoever.