Quotes about Perspective
Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
— Cicero
If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.
— Mark Twain
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
— Oscar Wilde
What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
— Henry David Thoreau
To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
— Henry David Thoreau
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
— Henry Ward Beecher
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
— John Donne
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
— Laurence Sterne
It is a sin to judge any man by his post
— St. Augustine
No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.
— Epictetus