#Perspective Quotes

“Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.”

“No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.”

“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

“Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.”

“Then with the losers let it sympathize,For nothing can seem foul to those that win.”

“Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.”

“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”

“I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!”

“There is nothing serious in Mortality”

“Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto”

“Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.”

“Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.”

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

“The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.”

“Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.”

“Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine itTo lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.Suppose the singing birds musicians,The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no moreThan a delight measure or a dance;For gnarling sorrow hath less power to biteThe man that mocks at it and sets it light.”

“One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly.”

“If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.”

“Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.”

“We are all wise for other people, none for himself.”

“Life too near paralyses art.”

“When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.”

“Where the greater malady is fixed,The lesser is scarce felt.”

“No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes.”

“The world when seen through a little child's eyes, greatly resembles paradise. Happiness is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway. This time, like all time, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.”

“The field cannot be seen from within the field.”

“Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.”

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”

“I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.”

“Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.”

“What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.”

“Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.”

“You never know how you look through other people's eyes.”

“Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.”

“The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.”

“Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.”

“I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.”

“There are some men above grief and some men below it.”

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

“Blessed are those who have no talent!”

“All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.”

“Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.”

“An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.”

“Life is a festival only to the wise.”

“Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.”

“The ocean is a large drop; a drop is a small ocean.”

“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”

“What a new face courage puts on everything!”