Quotes About Perspective

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.

The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others.

It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be "You came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?" I could tell you I've got superpowers. But I can't go up to people saying "Prove I can't fly." They'd go: "What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly'? Prove you can!

Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.

Just because you're offended doesn't mean your right.

We are on a rock travelling around 1 of 100 billion stars. Our species is 1 of over half a billion that have ever existed. Our chances of being born are about 1 in 400 trillion. You're not special, but you are fucking lucky. Enjoy your amazing life. You'll never exist again.

Life is an amazing gift, but it's only a gift if you're able to enjoy it.

You can laugh at bad things without being bad people.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

Lizzy stepped back and noticed that each quilt block appeared to have been placed inside of a window frame. It made her think about how every window on earth had a different view—and that outside of every window was a world of possibilities.

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty

For inst. when the telephone rings now days I am scared to death that its somebody asking us to go somewheres for dinner or somewheres. Six yrs. ago I was afraid it wasn't. At 29 home was like they say on the vaudeville stage, a place to go when all the other joints was closed up. At 35 its a place you never leave without a loud squawk.

People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That's how life works, but it's not bugging me anymore.

Riding across Nebraska in a covered wagon was a monthlong immersion therapy in kindness, a reminder of the essential decency of my country.