Quotes about Perspective

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

An optimist is someone who figures that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's the bluebird of happiness.

Just once it might be instructive to pretend you're accepting an award for failure, just to see who you would thank.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

I look at it this way. I'm not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder.

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

It's amazing how much funny stuff there is.... [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears.... I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people's pith. Not that it's such a bad life.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.