Quotes about Perspective

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that make's happiness

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets — neither of us have any.

When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore, I sometimes think: Friend, the fault is in your drawing. I don't regret for a moment that I did not go in for watercolour and oil painting straight away. I am sure I will catch up if only I struggle on, so that my hand does not waver in drawing and perspective.

I couldn't care less what the colours are in reality.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.