Quotes about Perspective

You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.

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.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall big picture of life.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

Many people say "my life stinks". Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.

Whatever people think of us is between them and God and not our concern.

Nobody on their death bed ever worried about their bank balance.

The people who are happy are the ones who decide to be happy.

In God's economy, we usually have to be willing to lose something we have in order to gain what we really want. Why hang on to something that is never going to satisfy you anyway? Don't live under the tyranny of what people think. Stop trying to convince them of your good intentions and let them think what they want to think. God is your defender; He will vindicate you in due time. What can someone's thoughts do to you anyway? Why live your life being afraid of a thought?

Perhaps you need to look up and around instead of back and down. Lift your eyes and see the amazing future which bursts with hope for you in God! Don't spend your life mourning over what you have lost and what is already gone; take an inventory of what you have left and keep going, one foot in front of the other, one step of faith at a time. Remember, God is on your side!

two of them together affect you emotionally and turn into moods and attitudes. If you truly want to be in a good mood on a regular basis, you can start by choosing to think about things that will generate good emotions instead of bad ones.