Quotes about Perspective

Attitudes are more important than facts.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

Live your life, not your age.

Change your thoughts and you change the world

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you. Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you start to deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether.

Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you.

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today's news isn't really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.

About 90 percent of the things in our lives are right, and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 90 percent that are right, and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious.