Quotes About Perspective

If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we so appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one's fireside after being among enemies. Unless there were contrast there might be satiety. He

To hear the young talk today you would think no one had had any excitement in the past, any heartaches, any problems, any bitter frustrations or heady fulfilment. The young of today were more than a shade tedious; pompous, self-centred, so sure that their concerns were the first important ones that had ever happened. They had no perspective. no sense of proportion. Perhaps it was necessary to be old to acquire a true sense of proportion. It was small consolation but it was something.

can't let other people's misery spoil our lives. We can't, for else there'd be no happiness for anyone ever again. We can't be all tied up one with another like that, or why did God make us separate? While we've got our happiness we must enjoy it, for who knows how long it will last?

I'm -- earthy. I don't look at a figure on a cross, I look at the things round me. Those are what I love; my husband, my child, my dog, my garden, my spinet, my bedroom, my home. Earthy. You see. But I have love overflowing for all those. Those are more important to me than a Man sitting on a throne in Heaven. I hope if I explain it to Him when I see Him, He'll come round to see it my way . . .

Well then, try to keep an open mind be ready to learn about other things. Such as this, I suppose Such as trying not to have set ideas - other people's ideas - about love

With age one never looked far ahead. The marathon horizons of youth narrowed and shortened into hurdles of age.

Yes. Oh yes. I told him Caroline wanted to break the journey down here to be in Bodmin during the election, but Caroline has written him also, so it was no news. Like her to ask me to ask her uncle and then to write herself!" "She's only a girl. Be patient with her, Unwin. You'll need patience. She's temperamental and wayward. And there are others will think her a good catch beside yourself.

Perhaps one aspect of arrogance lies in not being willing to accept what life sometimes expects one to accept.

It is hard to explain, for 'tis more than a gap. Or it has been with us. There is a change. Nothing hasn't been the same since. Those who are left are different people trying to live the same lives.

Life is too short to allow little things to fret.

life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don't matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.

Per me, Verity, l'inverno è finito. L'inverno e molto altro. Senza di te, non so che cosa ne sarebbe stato di me. Se ora l'inverno sta arrivando per te, pensi che potrei mai rifiutarmi di aiutarti solo perché vedo le cose in un altro modo? Non posso farmi piacere l'idea che tu sposi Blamey, ma questo è solo perché il tuo benessere mi sta immensamente a cuore. Questo però non significa che non ti aiuterò in ogni modo possibile.»

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Let me say this: being an idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they say folks supposed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you this - it ain't always that way. Even so, I got no complaints, cause I reckon I done live a pretty interesting life, so to speak.

Well, so what? I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing—an dreams is jus dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life. You know what I mean?

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

You create your own universe as you go along.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over thirty who is not a conservative has no brains.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.