Quotes about Perspective
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
— Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Adalbert Stifter
As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.
— Andy Stanley
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.
— Lawrence Wright
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
— Oscar Wilde