Quotes about Perspective
Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.
— Ellen Glasgow
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
— Marcel Pagnol
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
— Martha Washington
Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.
— Marty Rubin
Life is a sea of sorrow in the midst of islands of happiness.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
— Victor Hugo
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
— JC Ryle
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
— Donald Miller
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
— Charles Spurgeon