Quotes About Perspective

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted - and that's what all conditioning is.

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

Never allow anything to divert you from your insight into Jesus Christ. It is the true test of whether you are spiritual or not. To be unspiritual means that other things have a growing fascination for you. Since mine eyes have looked on Jesus, I've lost sight of all beside, So enchained my spirit's vision, Gazing on the Crucified.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace.