Quotes about Perspective
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
— Norman Vincent Peale
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
— Og Mandino
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul.
— Og Mandino
When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.
— Olga Tokarczuk
There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.
— Olga Tokarczuk
And he who has once seen the world's borders will suffer his imprisonment most painfully of all.
— Olga Tokarczuk
Sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.
— Olga Tokarczuk
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man has his will - but woman has her way.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.