#perspective

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death; and you will never entertain any abject thought.

Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been given back. Is your estate taken away? Well, and is not that likewise given back?

Do you wish to please a man who does not please himself?

What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky.

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Without death, life would be like a book whose pages are endless, and therefore meaningless.

The reason we do not see it is that we are looking with our eyes wide open in the wrong direction.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Real wisdom is the property of the divine, and human wisdom has little or no value.

To appreciate the beauty of a day, one must have experienced the chill of the night.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Like an eye that sees everything except itself, the healthy human soul looks outward toward reality.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Humor allows a human being to put a distance between himself and his predicament, rising above his sorrow if only for a few seconds.

The human capacity for self-detachment enables man to look at himself, judge himself, and even laugh at himself.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we imagine.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

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

The bird thinks it is an act of kindness to give the fish a lift in the air.