Quotes about Perspective
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you want to be happy, be!
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
— Henry David Thoreau
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
— Henry David Thoreau
This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
— Henry David Thoreau
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
— Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
— Henry David Thoreau
To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
— Henry David Thoreau
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
— Henry David Thoreau