Quotes About Perspective

Nogle ting er bedre i Sverige end i Danmark. De har bedre naboer.

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Forty is the old age of youth while fifty is the youth of old age.

We live surrounded by God's pattern but we aren't high enough to see it. You can elevate yourself, of course. That's the whole point of education, of meditation and prayer. The more one lifts oneself up, the more of the pattern he is able to make out, though only an enlightened few have a perspective lofty enough to see the outline whole.

We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness.

Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.

As I have yet to meet a gentleman I wished to spend the rest of my days with, I would say the failure was on their part rather than mine.

Sometimes when we lose something of importance what we have left becomes even more precious.

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother! I was going to say arm.

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan.

My mother, now covered, was no longer my mother. A covered apple is no longer an apple. A sketch of a person isn't the person. Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.

If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."

Just because your environment or living space changes doesn't mean that your attitude necessarily has to change.

Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.

There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.There wasn't a persona or an attitude that I could reliably write good stuff from.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

Innovation is more attitude than skill.

Your attitude is your greatest capital in life.

Gratitude leads to a good attitude