Quotes About Perspective

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

Every leader-writer who thunders 'Galileo' at us assumes that we know even less about Galileo than he does.

Popular science tries to define realities, and then finds that the definition can be extended to any number of unrealities.

There are, he claims, two kinds of people in the world: those who are dogmatic and know it, and those who are dogmatic and don't know it.

The aim of argument is differing in order to agree; the failure of argument is when you agree to differ.

The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place… in other words, the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it. And a particular point of it is that the popular critics of Christianity are not really outside it.

If truth is relative, to what is it relative?

You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have it depends solely upon what you think.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.