Quotes About Perspective

His current theory is that Sutton lived three separate lives. The one he remembered, the one he told people about, the one that really happened.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

68. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Being wealthy might seem to be "supremely enviable," he wrote, but "the business of wealth-getting, and of wealth-enjoyment, when viewed at close range, turns out to be a very different matter.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.

Sapete, alle volte è l'amore degli altri che ci innamora: vediamo una persona solo quando essa chiede i nostri occhi.

Triumph belongs to thought. Change your thinking and you change your life! You become new!

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

If you're always thinking pessimistic thoughts, pessimism will taint your mind. You will never be able to be happy.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

You may want to find a way to suggest ironic distance between the poet and speaker.

Is that all I have to look forward to? Comfort? I think I should prefer to be happy." "As you grow older, there is a lot to be said for being comfortable, ma'am. But I don't expect you to believe me. When I was your age I too wanted to be happy.

Is anyone ever really the same after being pushed through an opening the size of a donut hole only to end up wearing a fez?

So he was good-looking and he had a great set of thighs. Chickens had nice thighs, too.

The world was her oyster. Unlike Dixie, whose world was more like stinky, week-old dead fish.

How amazing that you can think you are experiencing a profound happening, almost like a miracle--and then you realize that you just made it that way in you mind