Quotes about perspective

The most dangerous form of blindness is believing that your perspective is the only reality.

The student loan payments feel endless, until you meet someone who never got to go to school.

The road to hell feels like heaven. The road to heaven often feels like hell.

If you can't change a situation, change your perception of it. Remember, most of your stress comes from the way you respond, not the way life is.

The dishes piling up are exhausting, until you set the table for one.

A crying baby on the plane is annoying, until you're the one who can't have one.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by their opinions about them.

He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear a hundred battles.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

If you are pained by anything external, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement of it.

Remember that all is opinion.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations.

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because it was he; it was I.

Things are not so painful and difficult in themselves, but our weakness and cowardice make them so.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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

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

Greater virtues are required to bear good fortune than bad.

We are never as happy or as miserable as we imagine.

Neither the sun nor death can be gazed upon steadily.