Quotes About Perspective

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

We are never content with our lot.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.