Favorite Quotations
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Perspectives
I Rant, Therefore I Am
Everyone thinks his sack heaviest. ~ George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective! ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart It is reassuring to know that I can control how I feel and what I do on any given day. The eay I choose to see the world creates the world I see. ~ Joan Lunden In heaven, an angel is nobody in particular. ~ George Bernard Shaw For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. ~ Abraham Lincoln For all things are less dreadful than they seem. ~ William Wordsworth Every wall is a door. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ~ Evelyn Underhill I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests. ~ Maria Mitchell I had a stroke in 1985… I called it a “stroke of luck.” I said, “Life is like a train trip. You’re looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you’re not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit.” ~ Hugh Hefner, 80
"Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals." ~ Leonardo Da Vinci