Quotes about Perspective

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

My dear, you will be woefully disappointed if in my story you expect any thing like a novel. I once heard a general say, that nothing was less like a review than a battle; and I can tell you that nothing is more unlike a novel than real life. Of all lives, mine has been the least romantic.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.