Quotes about Perspective

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.

So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

We are creatures of our thinking. We can talk ourselves into defeat, or we can talk ourselves into victory.

What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

If it weren't for death, life would be unbearable.

All we hear is "What's the matter with the country?" "What's the matter with the world?" There ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us in the world, and that's selfishness.

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of thought

A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. Nature