Quotes About Perspective

How others see you is not important. But how you see yourself means everything.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

We are all attractive in our own ways; it just takes the right person to hold the mirror and convince us of what others already see.

The only way to control what happens to you is to control your attitude towards what happens to you to mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

If you think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, start taking better care of your own yard.

Dont worry, most of the shadows of our life are actaully caused by our standing in our own sunshine. So, it is okay. Dont worry...

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.

Don't worry if People are judging you and give you their two cents sometimes without you even asking for it, you must come to learn that your own opinion is the only one that has true value.

In life, Sometimes you just have to forget what you want, and remember what you deserve.

Never make yourself feel like nothing to make someone else feel like everything.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'