Quotes about Perspective

It is said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. This becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.

I soon developed myopia and a firm belief that people in books were not only more interesting but more real than people outside of books.

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.

Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.

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.