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Perspective Quotes

"You can't look at a glass half full or empty if it's overflowing."

"The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you."

"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them."

"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless"

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

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open "

"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."

"It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it"

"I am not trying to rob you, I'm trying to help you "

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads "

"In Asia, life is cheap. It's a lesson I've learned over and over again in my travels."

"Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time."

"Reality is largely negotiable."

"It is idle to talk always of our happiness and to forget our troubles, if we forget also our infinitely greater joys"

"A man who died at thirty-five will appear to distant generations as a young man, almost a boy, while his contemporaries who reached a ripe old age will always seem to me to have been born old."

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