Quotes About Perspective

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth

He humbles Himself to behold the heavens and the earth.

All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

The soul that is full loathes honey, but to a hungry soul, any bitter thing is sweet.

Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise:

and the lizard can be caught in oneís hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.

Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.

Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?” For it is unwise of you to ask about this.

There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.

I have also seen this wisdom under the sun, and it was great to me:

You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

All the nations are as nothing before Him; He regards them as nothingness and emptiness.

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.