Perspective Quotes

"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step." "When you listen to a witness, you become a witness." "What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics " "When a person’s entire being is stretched in the effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile, it is impossible for the ordinary problems of life to seem important" "I think I had a different childhood, but I wouldn't say it was bad. Even if things went on in my life that were rough, I know that I learned from things, so I'm grateful for those experiences." "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes." "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." "The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." "Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time." "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it" "It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it becomes rigid and stale" "You can't control the environment, but you can control how you play the hand" "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old" "There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened" "The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks." "Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot." "Experience is what you got when you didn't get what you wanted" "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in Aim at earth and you get neither" "Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken" "It is not everyone who has your passion for dead leaves"