Perspective Quotes

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you arethe one who gets burned.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

We think too much and feel too little.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.

Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.

It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

The only way round is through.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.