Quotes About Perspective

What does that mean, 'to be content'? One could argue, 'to have everything'. But can you have everything? Or do you already have everything, but don't know it? The most precious thing in your life happens to be right under your nose, and you're not aware of it. What is it? The coming and going of this breath.

There's a lot to be said for making people laugh… did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much… but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.

The ethics of excellence require a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment, do you mortgage the future? What happens if you put your reputation at risk . . . and lose the bet?

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Our consciousness is programmed. We see things a certain way from a young age - we're programmed to keep doing them that way. Then you have to spend adulthood learning how to overcome it, to read out the programs. Try to create. I want to tell people to create. Just start by creating your day. Then create your life.

I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.

The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today. Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.

If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against your problems, you get the impression you're fighting for something. Even though all you're really doing is just . . . fighting. For nothing.

Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.

Exploring an aspect of the truth will be re- measuring the analogy.

Listen, when you are on the road on your trip : Don't worry about dying from an overdose of satisfaction.

Overconfidence that the other side will give you what you want can be a havoc negotiation error.

Sometimes the opinion is like a shoe, you have to find the shoe that suits you best, but don't force me to wear your shoes.

The worst feeling between two people is misunderstanding.

To the leaders of the judiciary and governance: Have you considered that we often judge ourselves by our best intentions and others by their worst faults !?

We all love the same moon, but we don't all have the same horizon.

We look at the world in the wrong way and say it oppresses us.

We must not confuse information with inspiration.

Man is the measure of all things.

There are two sides to every question.

The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.