Quotes About Perspective

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. "It must be up there somewhere on the horizon," we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

Be aware, the content and focus of your prevailing thoughts is critical to the result you experience.

It appears that many people's concept of heaven is often limited to their physical conceptions of reality.

On limestone quarried near the spotBy his command these words are cut:Cast a cold eyeOn life, on death.Horseman, pass by!

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Much did I rage when young,Being by the world oppressed,But now with flattering tongueIt speeds the parting guest.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist, lecturer and poet (1803-1882)

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

Politics How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

Reflecting from the vantage of more than a century, we can see today how trapped the leaders of the South felt in 1860. That the snare was only partially genuine, and partially in their imaginations and fears, made it no less real to them at the time. They had to act on the basis of what they knew and believed, and the fact that subsequent events and detached dispassionate study reveal that some of their belief was chimerical does not signify.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them.

An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

'Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat,To peep at such a world; to see the stirOf the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

quoting a Persian proverb, "those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.