About perspective.............

"Although most of us have five senses, two additional ones have special significance:  a sense of humor and a sense of perspective.  Out of these grows a natural outpouring of gratitude.  If we lack perspective, we also lack humor; we may become upset about small disappointments, broken expectations - about the imperfections or mistakes of others."


"Perspective also leads to a profound kind of humility, not in the sense of meekness, but in appreciating our place in the larger universe and the opportunity that live represents, whether or not it happens to be going well at the moment."


-Dan Millman,  Gratitude:  A Way of Life