Quotes about Perspective
If we don't take inventory every once in a while and give thanks to God for the great things He has done for us, we get totally out of perspective.
— David Jeremiah
Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.
— Joel Osteen
It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
— Samuel Johnson
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.
— George Washington
When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
— Martha Washington
Comparison is the thief of joy.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
— Bill Bailey
The door to happiness opens outward.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
— Corrie Ten Boom
If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad.
— CS Lewis