Quotes About Perspective

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.

Of course, everybody says they're for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: What kind of peace?

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

I just don't believe that there's any way that you're ever gonna get one peace, because everybody has different ways of seeing life.

Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.

We become what we think!" (Philippians 4:8, 9)

That's the key to walking through the Wall.... You have to first see it as not being a Wall, even though everyone you know still sees it as a Wall.

Some says money is everythingAnd some says love is everythingBut if you have peace of mind, you don't need anything..!

When expectations exceed reality, frustration is the result.

Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.

We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we take it what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end.

There is very little difference in people but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

It is not the situation. It is your reaction to the situation.

Each of us makes his own weather determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free