Quotes about Perspective
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
— George Bernard Shaw
Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
Better be happy than wise.
— Anonymous
To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.
— Teresa of Avila
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.
— GK Chesterton
Sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are in control of your life, which of course you are not.
— Tina Fey
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm really happy. Really! I think people honestly just want to see me as a mum and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, 'Everybody, relax! It's going to happen.'
— Jennifer Aniston
I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.
— Joyce Meyer
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.
— Mark Twain
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
— Philip Yancey