Quotes about Perspective

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.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants, and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.