Perspective Quotes

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes" "When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself." "Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are" "That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest" "When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him" "Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world." "I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." "Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" "The future is no more uncertain than the present." "If you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth" "A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old." "Independence is my happiness and I view things as they are without regard to place or person" "A person hears only what they understand " "In this world, either you're blessed or you're learned." "You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you" "The complete man is a man who can see play and seriousness, folly and wisdom, as aspects of his existence, and can go joyfully from one to the other." "It is idle to talk always of our happiness and to forget our troubles, if we forget also our infinitely greater joys" "Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small." "Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." "Luck doesn't change, only our perspective of it does."