Quotes About Perspective

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

Seeing is not always believing.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

I'm beginning to have morning sickness. I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think.

It's better to look at the sky than live there

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.

Everybody thinks they are right