Quotes About Perspective

Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It's something we make inside ourselves.

The happiest people are the people with the best attitudes, not the best lives.

What makes sense in the ivy-covered ivory tower may be shrill extremism in America's neighborhoods and workplaces.

Life is good. It is precious. It is a great blessing. Even on its worst days. And in its deepest valleys you must remember the view from its highest mountains. You must not forget that happiness is a matter of perspective, not circumstance.

There is a difference, Mr. President, between Christian extremism and Muslim extremism. Christian extremism was in the 1400s. Muslim extremism was Wednesday.

Creer que el cielo en un infierno cabe

Nise: Bien lo merece Eliodoro, griego poeta divino. Celia: ¿Poeta? Pues parecióme prosa. Nise: También hay poesía en prosa.

I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better. I definitely feel like I've grown up. So, I guess in a way parts of me are going to be different, but in general I'm still the same girl from the Bronx who had big dreams.

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others.

The vividness and force with which we trace the motion of history depends on the degree to which we look beyond persons and fix our gaze on things.

The danger of reading too much is that we shall have only the thoughts of others. The danger of reading too little or none at all, that we shall have none but our own.

Although ink was not invented to express our real feelings, I improve my first stoppage between two trains to thank you for three such delightful days in London. It was a shame to take up so much of your busy time, and to persecute you with the serpentine wisdom. I did not wish to turn into bitterness the sweetest thing on earth, but I fancied that there are things good to be observed in your great position which nobody will tell you if you do not hear them from the most wicked of your friends.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.

I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot; There flowers or weeds at will may grow, So I behold them not

And yet methinks the older that one grows Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth.

methinks the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

For time at last sets all things even And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power.