Quotes About Perspective

You should be thankful of what you have , someone people cant even have food . & your over here saying sh.. to your mom cause she don't buy you new shoes ? wow .

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

Being Thankful for the little things, gives you Grace to overcome the bigger ones.

Stop worryin about what you aint got and start being thankful for what you do have, some people have to make do without it.

Gratitude, being thankful for the things we've been given, even when it's hard.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

Oh hey life, I didn't see you there behind all that school.

Life is indeed beautiful. It's times when we sink into our hectic and stressful lifestyles that we are blinded and fail to see what we really have.

Truth has two sides it is better we look at both before we commit ourself to either.

It is not the position you stand, but the direction in which you look.

Years later the Romantic poet John Keats would complain that on that fateful day Newton had "destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow by reducing it to prismatic colors." But color—like sound and scent—is just an invention of the human mind responding to waves and particles that are moving in particular patterns through the universe—and poets should not thank nature but themselves for the beauty and the rainbows they see around them.

In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

So, Kerensa, you should never regret any experience, good or evil; for there's some good in what's bad just as there be bad in good...

Never take anything for granted, Miss Jessie. If you do you might lose it. If it's worth cherishing, cherish it.

It has always astonished me how changes come into one's life. The gradual change becomes acceptable, but sudden shock, presenting itself without warning to shatter the existence so completely that nothing will ever be the same again, makes me uneasily aware of the perpetual uncertainties of life.

I did not wish her to go on in this strain because her poverty was something which obsessed her and like all obsessions was boring to other people.

Que mi propia fecha llegue muchos años después de ahora. Exactamente un día antes que la tuya.

Besides," Dara said, "he didn't see me the way other people did.

If you are working on a short story for a small online press, don't try to write a serious, world-changing, add-this-to-the-literary-canon masterpiece. Do your best work, but keep it all in perspective. Save the stress for when it is really called for, like facing a two-week deadline to rewrite a novel for a major house.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers' parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.

Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.