168 Perspective Quotes to share with friends and relatives

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. – Herbert Spencer

Vision may sometimes sleep in the sun, while it wakens to widest revelation in utter darkness. Thus I am rapt in a trance-like acceptance of opening cavernous depths, crypts of decyphered gloom, yielding hollows of velvet obscurity that go down, down to the roots of things. – Virginia Garland, “The Rain,” Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the Ne

There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. – Paul Eldridge

The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. – FranÃ§ois VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. – Matthew Henry

Events and external objects are, so to speak, but a neutral substance, which receives its colour and its significance from our soul. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world. – Japanese Proverb

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. – Brooks Atkinson

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. – Saint Thomas Aquinas

An abridgement may be a bridge: it may help us over the water: but it keeps us from drinking. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. – Samuel Butler, Note-Books

All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. – Mark Twain, about the Devil

The shadows: some hide, others reveal. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. – Thomas Carlyle

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, “Notebook L,” Aphorisms

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. – Steven Wright