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Quotes About Perspective

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
~ Helen Keller
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
~ Alice Morse Earle
Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!
~ Shimon Peres
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
~ Robert Breault
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
~ Aaron Rose
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
~ Konrad Adenauer
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
~ John C. Maxwell
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.
~ Emmet Fox
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
~ Epictetus
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
~ William Arthur Ward
Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.
~ Queen Latifah
Life does not owe you anything, because life has already given you everything.
~ Ralph Marston
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
~ John Lubbock
As a man is, so he sees.
~ William Blake
What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
~ Jay Alan Sekulow
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.
~ Douglas Malloch
Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last.
~ Joel Osteen
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
~ bell hooks
We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.
~ Chen Shui-bian
I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
~ Sidney Poitier
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
~ Richard Wagner
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
~ Harvey Mackay