Quotes About Perspective

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

I found that Dottie's middle age, old age, made rock of much that had been fluid, and eccentricities once charming became too strange for safety or comfort.

When people react without knowing the whole story or empathizing with the parties involved, some very bad decisions get made.

I save my panic for small things.

Perhaps some day it will be pleasant to remember even this.' " Mykolos

All this time, he'd been thinking in two dimensions…forgetting that there was also a Z axis to be considered.

Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.

Faith looks to God, but feelings look to what is going on around us. Faith hopes in who God is and in what He has promised.

When confronted with negative circumstances, we have a choice: Will we pray about the problem or will we worry about it?

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

Our perspective is of utmost importance to God: where our hope is, where our treasure is, and what we are doing with the riches God has given us.

Are you going to judge God by the circumstances you don't understand or judge the circumstances in the light of the character of God?

Never allow yourself to complain about anything — not even the weather. Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else. Never compare your lot with another's. Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise. Never dwell on tomorrow — remember that [tomorrow] is God's, not ours.1

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

I didn't stop to think about how my normal had never been so great in the first place. And I was a mess. I'd been holding my secrets inside for so long, I had lost all sense of perspective. If we can do what we're meant to do, I think we can make them stop.

She had told Dr. Orne that Plath "took something that was mine—that death was mine!

Everything feels like the end of the world, and you can't reason with someone who can't see tomorrow.

If he's in love with someone else, then what does it matter whether or not he's slept with her?

I'll be on another case soon. You won't need me anymore. You'll be walking, though I think you should wait a while before climbing another mountain. You're my therapist, Blake snapped. Dione gave a little laugh. For months you've depended on me more than any other person in your life. Your perspective is distorted now. Believe me, by the time I've been gone a month, you won't even think about me. 'Do you mean you'd just turn your back on me and walk away? he asked disbelievingly.

Chloe put aside worries about her job, her life, and turned to face him. Sex can't be the answer to everything, she said as she draped her arms around his strong neck. He bent his head to hers. For now, it can, he said and kissed her.

God save me from a woman's way of thinking. What the hell kind of logic is that? One has nothing to do with the other." "Maybe not to you, but let's face it, you're plankton, and I'm a higher life form. Details matter to me.

How can dreams be secondhand? Lissie asked, sounding both skeptical and intrigued. Addie flipped on the headlights, watched the snowflakes dancing in the beams. Sometimes people give up on them, because they don't fit anymore. Or they just leave them behind, for one reason or another. Then someone else comes along, finds them, and believes they might be worth something after all.

The epic, apocalyptically good lovemaking that had rocked Zane to the foundations of his being, altered his worldview—hell, his view of this and any other universe that might be out there—had turned him, essentially, from one man into another.

My thoughts are not your thoughts, and my ways are not your ways. . . . Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).