Perspective Quotes

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors."

Terry Pratchett

"Travelers never think that they are the foreigners."

Mason Cooley

"A great way to learn about your country is to leave it."

Henry Rollins

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."

Albert Szent-Györgyi

"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"The truth is more important than the facts."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."

Aesop

"Truth is the shattered mirror strewn in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own."

Sir Richard Burton

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

John Stuart Mill

"The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters."

Harold Nicolson

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the opinions about things."

"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

Kalpana Chawla

"So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune."

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."

Bertrand Russell

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

Melody Beattie

"When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in."

Kristin Armstrong

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."

Leo Tolstoy

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Wayne W. Dyer

"I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet."

Saadi Shirazi

"Things do not change; we change."