Quotes About Perspective

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill FOREWORD My mother called it "God's will.

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill

For some reason, we think our parents will never grow old, perhaps because when they do, we are forced to acknowledge that we will one day grow old, and we face our own mortality.

None of us is getting out of here alive. But it doesn't have to be today.

It has been suggested that the heart of sin is taking oneself too seriously.

No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen.

Rather than speaking the truth for the right reasons we may want to make our point defend our position or put the other person down. The truth be told but it should be done at the right time for the right reasons and with the right attitude.

We may feel good about our words our intentions and our motivation may be pure but our message probably will be lost or misunderstood if we overlook how others are going to perceive what we say.

Disagree but don't argue.

The gods of yesterday become the devils of tomorrow.

By Crom, though I've spend considerable time among you civilized peoples, your ways are still beyond my comprehension

It is good that war is terrible. Or else we would become too fond of it.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

The time is not come for impartial history. If the truth were told just now, it would not be credited.

All motion is relative. Perhaps it is you who have moved away-by standing still

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary; for those who don't believe in God no explanation is possible.

Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

How can I judge?" she said at last. "To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster." She let her head fall into her arms and started crying quietly. "I miss him! Curse him! I miss him!" Mithorden put a hand on her shoulder and let her cry for a few minutes. A sad smile slowly spread across his face. "I'm glad you can forgive him," he said at last. Luthiel lifted her head. "How do you know?" Because you miss him.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

The feet-on-the-stove stance of this book is a deliberate attempt to cure myself, and anyone else who will listen, of the nasty habit of worrying the world to pieces like a terrier with a rag. What we are up to here is not the hasty shaking loose of a culinary result, but a patient rumination on cooking itself. There are more important things to do than hurry.

The poor man may envy the rich their houses, their lands, and their cars; but given a good wife, he rarely envies them their table.

I think that anyone who reaches the age of three or four has more than likely already had all the misery he or she needs.