Quotes about Perspective
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am sure the grapes are sour.
— Aesop
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
— Alain de Botton
Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.
— Alain de Botton
Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
— Alain de Botton
Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.
— Alain de Botton
The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.
— Alain de Botton
Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.
— Alain de Botton
There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.
— Alain de Botton
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
— Alain de Botton
Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.
— Alain de Botton