Quotes about Perspective

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.

Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God; and like sight, it is nothing apart from its object. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight, as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.

Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.

Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.