{"id":2209,"date":"2013-03-23T20:50:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T01:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:48:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:48:54","slug":"perspective-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/perspective-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Perspective\"<\/p>\n

So much of life is about perspective isn’t it?\u00a0 You think you’re having a bad day and then you narrowly avoid a car accident.\u00a0 It turns out to be a very, very lucky day.<\/p>\n

You’re surprised to hear about a friend’s divorce.\u00a0 You always thought they were so happy. Nope.\u00a0 That was just how it looked from the outside.<\/p>\n

You look out the window and see a snowy, cold afternoon.\u00a0 Your child looks out the window and sees their world transformed into a beautiful, white fantasy.<\/p>\n

Perspective.\u00a0 It’s the difference between living your life and just getting through your life.<\/p>\n

One never can tell from the sidewalk just what the view is to some one on the inside, looking out.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0 Knocking the Neighbors<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Ade<\/p>\n

Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0 The Stark Munro Letters<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/p>\n

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0 Night and Day<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Virginia Woolf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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