Perspective Quotes

There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we didn’t dare to take things in hand?

— Vincent Van Gogh

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

— William Shakespeare

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.

— Marie Curie

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

— Nelson Mandela

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

— anaïs nin

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision—then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

— Audre Lorde

People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.

— Epictetus

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

— William Shakespeare

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

— Samuel Beckett

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.

— Octavia E. Butler

Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly.

— Langston Hughes

All conditioned things are impermanent.

— The Buddha

Children see magic because they look for it.

— Christopher Moore

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

— Pablo Picasso

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

— Zora Neale Hurston

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

— Jane Goodall

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

— Mary Shelley

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

— Seneca

Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.

— William Shakespeare

Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.

— William Shakespeare