Quotes about Perspective

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.

As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.