Quotes about Perspective

Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.

We are all wise. The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art. I knew, in an academical club, a person who always deferred to me; who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior; whilst I saw that his experiences were as good as mine. Give them to me and I would make the same use of them.

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

Why should I vapor and play the philosopher, instead of ballasting, the best I can, this dancing balloon?

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.