Perspective Quotes
1797 quotes by 1428 authors
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I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the…
— Hugh Hefner
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Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be…
— Cloris Leachman
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Every cloud engenders not a storm.
— William Shakespeare
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I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.
— Doris Lessing
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If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.
— Jim Abbott
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I never really thought of myself as a beefcake kind of guy.
— Ben Affleck
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Treat the large as the small and the few as the many.
— Laozi
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Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.
— Margaret Atwood
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Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time.…
— Michelle Pfeiffer
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Most people think that I am too optimistic, but my optimism is based on the thought that negative thinking is a luxury that we can't…
— Yoko Ono
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The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Don't take yourself so personally.
— Ram Dass
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We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's…
— Marina Keegan
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I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell…
— Tony Bennett
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Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.
— Evan Esar
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Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
— Simone Weil
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Liabilities are just assets in hiding.
— Mark Victor Hansen
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People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite…
— Oliver Sacks
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At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.
— Tom Petty
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