Perspective Quotes

"I treat everything that happens in life, good or bad, as formative" "The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have." "To you I am an atheist; to God, I am the loyal opposition." "Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Wherever you are is heaven and hell at the same time." "I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains." "We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world." "The universe is always conspiring to help you, even if it doesn’t feel that way sometimes." "The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." "I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything" "Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun" "I tried to pay attention but attention paid me" "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past" "The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow" "When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?" "A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point" "Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations." "You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it" "You can't fix a problem using the same kind of thinking that created it"