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Quotes About Perspective

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see
~ Christine Upton
Happiness comes to you when it comes from you.
~ Sravani Saha Nakhro
Happiness at any price is no happiness at all.
~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.
~ Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin
If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.
~ Peter Singer, Practical Ethics
I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
~ Tony Shalhoub
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
~ Socrates
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
~ Victor Hugo
I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
~ Anonymous
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting
~ Heraclitus
We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
The health of the eye demands a horizon.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we change the way we think, we change our lives. What most people do not understand is how powerful our thinking is and how involved it is in our health.
~ Bob Proctor
Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.
~ Ian Mckellen
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
How can you eat anything with eyes?
~ Will Keith Kellogg
I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.
~ John Waters
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
~ J. C. Ryle
The best thing about improvements in health care is that all the climate-change deniers are now going to live long enough to see how wrong they were.
~ Joseph J. Romm
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
~ Byron Katie
We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.
~ W. Heath Robinson