Quotes About Perspective

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

It took me years to learn that happiness is not something one attains, but fleeting, like sunshine. It comes and goes.

Folks believe the side of the story that suits 'em.

No one learns from the road walked by another man.

He told me about his ex-girlfriend. She'd died for about eight minutes. When she recovered he asked her what was it like. She told him to describe "blue".

My dad had a framed picture of a surfer on a giant wave in his den. The wave always looked so huge. My Papa told me that was life. This giant thing trying to get you that you had to find pleasure in riding.

what deliberate steps are you taking to make sure the toxic smoke of the world's way of thinking isn't sifting into your own personal space to poison your mental, emotional, and spiritual "atmosphere"?

The challenge before us as God's people is to refuse to allow our thinking to be muddied by the spirit of this age.

Your Reality will become what You embrace.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Camera's don't take pictures, people do.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate sourvenir is a broader perspective.

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

Europe's reluctance to go to war frustrates some Americans. I believe their relative pacifism is because Europeans know the reality of war, while most Americans do not. …. It's easier to feel detached when a war is something you watch on the nightly news, rather than something that killed your grandfather or destroyed your hometown.

I remember when the standard farewell when I set off on another trip was "Bon voyage!" But today, Americans tend to say, "Have a safe trip." (When I hear this, I'm inclined to say, "Well, you have a safe stay-at-home—because where I'm going is statistically much safer than where you're staying.")

To me, understanding people and their lives is what travel is about, no matter where you go.

Noticing the twinkling lights strung up in honor of the holy month of Ramadan, I thought "Charming- they've draped Christmas lights between their minarets." But a Turk might come into my house and say, "Charming- he's draped Ramadan lights on his Christmas tree.