Perspective Quotes

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

The further back I look, the further forward I can see.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

It's not about you. It's about them.

The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Tell the truth and not the facts.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

The rain has spoiled the farmer's day;Shall sorrow put my books away?Thereby are two days lost.

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

Humor is when the joke's on you but hits the other fellow first -- before it boomerangs.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.