Quotes About Perspective

Chúng ta c?n h?c cách Ä'ánh giá ng??i khác không ph?i thông qua cái h? làm, hay cái h? b? sót không làm, mà qua nh?ng kh? Ä'au h? Ä'ã tr?i qua

By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?

In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one's own acts and deeds, compared with what we become only through other people.

What may appear weak and insignificant to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be continually taking its temperature.

But what is the finest book, or picture, or house, or estate, to me, compared to my wife, my parents, or my friend

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...

Welcome the view that the things which you think are wrecking your life - like your thoughts and emotions, or illness and death - are actually gifts for your transformation... Whether life presents us with a pleasant sound or an unpleasant sound, a pleasant smell or an unpleasant smell, a pleasant thought or an unpleasant thought, it's sheer delight because instead of identifying with the experience, we simply touch it and let it go.

nous avons de quoi nous vêtir et nous loger, mais nous aimerions tellement avoir des vêtements plus remarquables,

When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.

God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his.

God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.

It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.

Our view of God determines how we live for Him.

It is not the things we see, but the mind we see them with, which makes the real interest of travelling.

The saddest part of life will never be about you, but about someone else's death.       The

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might have. And so I never questioned Angela about that particular story, or about all the troubling things that it pointed to, content to believe that at least in this version things worked for her better than they did in the one I never heard.

Don't worry', he said. I almost laughed when he said that. Don't worry. It's only the people whove never had to worry about shit in their lives who say that.

For the first time in my life, every day when I woke up I had clean clothes, and something to eat two, three times a day, as much as I wanted. Once I had that, I realized my revolution was over.

When it comes to the question of the mummy's curse, I am afraid that my sympathies are entirely with the mummy.

And truly, when I think about it, no one owes me a proper and truthful account of their life. And I don't owe anyone veracity when it comes to mine.

No argument in the world is ever resolved. Resolving would suggest some liquid in which arguments could be immersed, perhaps love. But it must be love enough.

And truly, when I think about it, no one owes me a proper and truthful account of their life. And I don't owe anyone veracity when t comes to mine.