Perspective Quotes

Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

Our body hears whatever is in our mindsand responds.

Our body hears whatever is in our minds and responds.

When you’re here, an i in the Ocean, you’re no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you’re here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive, that you are.

All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.

Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective

I’m convinced that there is nothing ​truly good. Hell, sunshine can wilt a flower.

Describing his experience with the sting of an extremely toxic jellyfish, he did something you don't often see a scientist do: he shivered.

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years.Would we know we were together?

As his former student Alastair Fowler once remarked, "Lewis seemed always on the verge of hilarity -- between a chuckle and a roar.

The author emphasizes the importance of self-forgetfulness when his statistics were marred by a bad outing. He forgot all of that outing to such an extent that he quipped, "What was my name?

As the honors accrued, creativity diminished.

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?

We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different

If I continually focus on what I don’t have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it’s completely full.

Thankfulness is an attitude of possibilities, not an attitude of liabilities.

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

There are two kinds of 'disabled' persons: Those who dwell on what they have lost and those who concentrate on what they have left.

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.

Gratitude washes all of my worries and my stress away.

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.

We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful.

The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.

When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

One of Lincoln's intimates as a presidential candidate urged him to make no promises and not to part with those kind words which could be interpreted as promises.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on, " his affirmation of the power of love.

..there are two possible endings to every story.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Silverfish looked down."Oh. Are you a dwarf?"Cuddy gave him a blank stare."Are you a giant?" He said."Me? Of course not!""Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective.

For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says, on the star tree, pale with luminousocean leaves.

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.

You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.