Perspective Quotes

"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born."

Alan Kay

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

Sydney J. Harris

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

John Milton

"You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather."

Pema Chödrön

"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else."

Martina Navratilova

"Every disadvantage has its advantage."

Johan Cruyff

"Tennis is just a game, family is forever."

Serena Williams

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan

"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."

Norman Cousins

"You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb."

Jim Lovell

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."

Fred Hoyle

"The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way – by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space."

Roger B. Chaffee

"You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA."

James Lovelock

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Charlie Chaplin

"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."

Kahlil Gibran

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us."

Carl Sagan

"The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world."

Alexander von Humboldt

"There are other sorrows in the world besides love."

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?"

"If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars."

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

Seneca

"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."