Quotes About Perspective

Set honor in one eye and death i' the other,And I will look on both indifferently.

It adds a precious seeing to the eye.

He makes a July's day short as December.

True is it that we have seen better days.

For it so falls outThat what we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhiles it was ours.

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.

Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,With what I most enjoy contented least;Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,Haply I think on thee.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all.

O! you must wear your rue with a difference. There's a daisy; I would give you some violets, but they withered all when my father died.

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.

A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel!I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,And, looking on it with lack-luster eye,Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock;Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

Happy in that we are not over happy.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.

Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

Take it easy, nothing matters in the end, what goes up must come down. If I'd known that at 20, I wouldn't have done anything!

There are no facts anymore, kiddo. only good or bad fiction.

There are many lives in a lifetime.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

I am your own way of looking at things," she said. "When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation

We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed: you may be heroic, but you will not be wise. If you have things right in your life but do not know why, you are just lucky, and you will not move in the little ways that encourage good fortune.