Quotes about Perspective
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
— Billy Graham
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.
— Epictetus
How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.
— Tony Robbins
Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
— Virginia Woolf
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
— Donald Miller
Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
— Henry Cloud
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
— Maya Angelou
You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.
— Oprah Winfrey
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
— Oswald Chambers
What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us
— Rick Warren