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Quotes About Perspective

You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.
~ Robert Benchley
Understand the acute difference between the cost of something and the value of something.
~ Robin Sharma
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
~ Seneca the Younger
You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
~ Seneca the Younger
I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
~ Seneca the Younger
I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.
~ Sophie Ellis Bextor
Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
~ Sylvia Plath
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.
~ Tim Ferriss
If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!
~ Tony Robbins
The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's what we get. If we choose misery, we get that, too.
~ Tony Robbins
You can use your story, or your story can use you.
~ Tony Robbins
There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.
~ Wayne Dyer
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.
~ William Hazlitt
Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.
~ Albert Einstein
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
~ Andre Gide
Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.
~ Andy Roddick
An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.
~ Anne Frank
We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.
~ Bernard of Chartres
Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism
~ Criss Jami
What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?
~ Dave Matthews
What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.
~ Denis Leary
Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.
~ Derek Fisher
I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
~ Drew Barrymore
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
~ Dante Alighieri