Quotes about Perspective

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people's sins.

I owe you a small thanks, for you have made me far more sure of my own position by letting me see the case for free choice put forward with all the energy of so distinguished and powerful a mind, but with no other effect than to make things worse than before.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

What the heathen had in their wood, we have in our opinions.

your thoughts concerning God are too human.