Quotes About Perspective

When you are on the lowest rung of society, you are a comforting reminder to those just a bit above you that life could always be worse, that they are not you.

A cunning liar who relies on the word of another? I suppose I should appreciate the colossal irony.

Life is just a chair of bowlies

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

To be happy: Don't do whatever you like; Like whatever you do.

It's just a bad day, not a bad life.

if you don't like something change it and if you cannot change it ,change the way you you think about it.

We don't care how they do it in New York.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

The abstract artist, he said, would be repeatedly challenged by such skeptics asking, "'What does it mean?'… 'Is it a sky, a house, a horse?'" To which they should respond with confidence and honesty, "'No, it is a painting.'"29

Things are always less important once you're assured of having them.

you can't keep eating pancakes with chocolate and powdered sugar on them for the rest of your life. Thirty years from now, you'll understand why your mom's eating fish, and I'm pretending to enjoy this turkey bacon that tastes like paper.

I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.

Ik wil een normaal gesprek met je voeren en omdat jij zo lang bent, kan ik dat niet doen als je er niet bij gaat zitten. Dan krijg ik kramp in mijn nek. - Silvia

So many dead, Grace thought in melancholy wonder, and realised, for perhaps the first time, that there were more dead people in the world than live ones.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

Your attitude is the only thing in your life over which you have complete control.

You cannot tailor-make your situations in life, but you can tailor-make your attitude to fit those situations. ~ Zig Ziglar

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back into sanity.

Su abuela siempre le aconsejaba que no fuera demasiado explícita al formular sus deseos, porque a veces la mejor solución es una que no se le ocurriría nunca.

The difference between a gift and a curse can be how one feels about it.

I've been called many things in my life, but never a sacrificial penguin.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.