Perspective Quotes

"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."

"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is."

"The good and the bad are all part of life. If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"Greatest danger in life: taking yourself too seriously."

"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play"

"Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route"

"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"

"There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities"

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened"

"With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look — for dizzier heights."

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."

"Chaos isn't a pit Chaos is a ladder"