Quotes About Perspective

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

How many things there are which I do not want.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

If you desire many things many things will seem but a few.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

If you would but exchange places with the other fellow how much more you could appreciate your own position.

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Life is hard. Next to what?

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view.

Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful-we hold the key to freedom.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.