Quotes About Perspective

One who brings a mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, and what I should be...

The mind is its own place, and in itself103 255 Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can makes a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven

whose eye Views all things at one view? He from Heaven's height

254: The mind is its own place, and in it self 255: Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

The mind is its own place and in itself [255] Can make a Heaven of hell, a hell of Heaven.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.

The mind in its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell,a hell of heaven.

We have to stop marketing to people the way we hate to be marketed to.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

All that is necessary to make any landscape visible and therefore impressive is to regard it from a new point of view or from an old one with our head upside down -- then we behold a new heaven and earth and are born again as if we had gone on a pilgrimage to some far off holy land.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.

We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.

Each of us carries a unique world within our hearts.

We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos.

Only the blindness of habit convinces us that we continue to live in the same place, that we see the same landscape. In truth, no place ever remains the same because light has no mind for repetition; it adores difference. Through its illuminations, it strives to suggest the silent depths that hide in the dark. Light

It was Kierkegaard who said that life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward.

A horizon is something towards which we move, but it's also something that moves along with us - Hans Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method)

they don't know that the outside could be the inside if only they would stop all this pushing and shoving and screaming, and they haven't got enough sense to realize that.

Failure is not something that happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about outcomes.

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.