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Quotes About Perspective

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.
~ Joan Marques
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
~ John Milton, Paradise Lost
The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!
~ Edward J. Stieglitz
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
~ E.E. Cummings
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
~ Winston S. Churchill
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
~ Seneca
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
~ Lynette Mather
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
~ Epicurus
I'm the living embodiment of 'it could be worse'.
~ Dan Howell
Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.
~ Robert M. Drake
It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.
~ Jules Renard
I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.
~ Jaycee Dugard, A Stolen Life
You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.
~ Colleen Houck
I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.
~ R.J. Anderson, Ultraviolet
One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.
~ Forrest Curran
Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?
~ Violet Weingarten
Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
~ Sheryl Crow
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
What other people think of me is not my business.
~ Michael J. Fox
Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision.
~ Rich DiSilvio
CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!
~ Ron Sanders
You can choose to say, "Good Morning God" or "Good God, morning!
~ Timothy Parker
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--
~ Robert Murray McCheyne