2,376 Quotes About Perspective

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeasurably insignificant or we are incalculably precious and interesting. I tend toward the second view.

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you’d feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn’t be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn’t make me feel I’d done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I’m descended from an ape, I feel I’ve done remarkably well.

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage.

She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it differently of course; the colour could have been thinned and faded; the shapes etherealised; that was how Paunceforte would have seen it. But then she did not see it like that. She saw the colour burning on a framework of steel; the light of a butterfly’s wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral.

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.