Perspective Quotes

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history." "To love beauty is to see light" "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price" "We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor eternal, and that we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we imagine" "Age doesn't matter an open mind does." "Reality is largely negotiable." "When things are going well, it’s hard to imagine that they could ever go poorly. And when things are going poorly, it’s hard to imagine that they could ever go well again" "Happiness does not really depend on objective conditions of wealth, health, or even community. Rather, it depends on the correlation between objective conditions and subjective expectations." "Every opinion you have right now is a product of what you have been exposed to in life." "If you know how to be happy with nothing, you will know how to be happy with everything." "The greatest bondage in life is not of a situation but of your own mind." "Life does not always have to turn out the way you think it should. It should always turn out the best that it can." "If you view everyone as your enemies then everyone around you will become your enemies." "The only thing you know for sure about the future is that it will be different from the present" "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."