Best Quotes on Perspective

Find beauty in the madness.

Sometimes you win by losing.

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Not every wall needs a ceiling

Two men looked out from prison bars; one saw the mud, the other saw the stars.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars

It is possible to have a thousand problems and still not have a single valid reason to kill yourself

My whole life i though i was the star of an overly earnest romance movie and it turns out i was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along

Everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward.

I don’t so much hope that any reader “agrees” with me, as I hope to haunt them, to trouble their sense of how things actually are.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.

Reaching the moon is more joyful when you have spent all your life in a gutter

You're so haunted by other people's futures that you forget, the only future you cannot see is your own.

When the wind blows, some people build walls, others build windmills.

You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you

We are all prisoners, but some of us are in cells with windows and some without

You wouldnt worry so much about what other people think of you if you realized how seldom they do

A person's toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

To realize the value of one millisecond ask a person who has won a silver medal at the olympics

Anything other than death is a minor injury.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

Young men wish: love money and health. One day they'll say: health money and love.

I read this on the gates to a village cemetery: What you are, we used to be. What we are, you’re going to be. — It puts things in perspective, doesn’t it?

Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon. - Persian proverb

You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.

You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand.

How agonized we are by how people die. How unconcerned we are by how they live.

The only way to get over a death is by seeing it as a life completed, instead of a life interrupted.