Quotes about Perspective

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.