Quotes About Perspective

I told my psychiatrist everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous; everyone hasn't met me yet

Life is like a cobweb, not an organizational chart.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at will change.

Have you ever lived my life, have you ever spent one minute in my shoes? If you havent, then tell me why you judge me like you do.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

The pesimist says: it cannot get any worse. The optimist joyfully exclaims: yes, it can!

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

No one who dies never said that he had got everything in his/her life.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Life's like sailing. You're better to enjoy your journey on the ship instead of just waiting to reach the destination.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world

It may come as a severe shock if you havent given much thought to this subject beforebut our precious, cast-in-stone, objective beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches