Quotes about Perspective

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Suffering has always been with us, does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

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.