Quotes About Perspective

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. "Who cares?"

Poor people choose now. Rich people choose balance.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!

Happiness is a decision.

If you just look for what's right - in others, in relationships, in yourself and your journey - you'll always find it. Same when looking for what's wrong.

Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are.

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.