Quotes About Perspective

She insisted that she had not gone back to the land. She would say that we all live on the land, whether we know it or not.

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have.

Do what I sometimes do when I get scared: imagine you're someone else, someone who's far braver and smarter.

It would be surprising if you didn't hate me for what I've had to do today. A part of me hates myself. But I have orders. Winter is coming. My country is under siege. Without this food, my people will starve. So here in Italy, and in your eyes, I'm a criminal. Back home, I'll be an unsung hero. Good. Evil. It's all a question of perspective, is it not?

remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

Pino remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

You know, my young friend, I will be ninety years old next year, and life is still a constant surprise to me. We never know what will happen next, what we will see, and what important person will come into our life, or what important person we will lose. Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not a tragedy.

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful.

You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful

She told me once that she believed that life does not happen to you; it happens for you, and that your whole life is a blessed journey of discovery. But you can only see life clearly and relish it when the journey is almost at an end.

She told me once that she believed that life does not happen to you; it happens for you, and that your whole life is a blessed journey of discovery.

Don't chew on the bad things that happen to you, dear. Try to see the beauty in every cruelty. It sets you free. Forgive hurt if you want to heal a broken heart. Try to be grateful for every setback or tragedy, because by living through them, you become stronger. I

Awww, well, my young friend, how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?

like your friend Mrs. Kantor, we'll be able to see the beauty in every cruelty we've had to endure. Even this moment.

Life is change, constant change, and unless we are lucky enough to find comedy in it, change is nearly always a drama, if not a tragedy.

Don't worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food to eat or clothes to wear. For life consists of far more than food and clothing. LUKE 12:22-23

As long as the physical universe remains our point of reference, we will never find what we are looking for.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Iíve seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other.