Quotes About Perspective

When someone places more value in saving money, than the value they place in saving Life, they have "misplaced" their values.

It's often been said that "seeing is believing", but in many cases, the reverse is also true. Believing results in seeing.

Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is it?

When you continually tell Life: "there are things that I lack and things that I want", Life will return that exact experience. But when you continually tell Life: "I have all that I need and am free to serve others", Life will return that exact experience: you will have all you need and will be free to serve others.

Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

Live simply", she said. "Don't expect so much out of life. You can only be disappointed when your expectations are not met so strive for the best but keep your expectations simple." I

Positive psychology is a framework, or a paradigm, that encompasses an approach to psychology from the perspective of healthy, successful life functioning.

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

We may say that morality, as well as good sense, is the best distributed thing in the world, for all think themselves so well endowed with both that even those who are hardest to please in everything else do not usually desire more of them than they possess.

I would not like to hear from any of you that you can't find qualified blacks. I have spent my life trying to find qualified whites and some of you don't qualitfy yet.

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

La mente de Dios y la Palabra de Dios son mucho más amplias que nuestras propias perspectivas y Él nos llevará a través de la Biblia para orar con entendimiento por cosas que están mucho más allá de las mismas cosas de siempre.

Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.

Why don't you knock it off with those negative waves...

Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.

You think that because you understand "one" that you must therefore understand "two" because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and.

Once you start listing the elements of a system, there is almost no end to the process. You can divide elements into sub-elements and then sub-sub-elements. Pretty soon you lose sight of the system. As the saying goes, you can't see the forest for the trees.

It is to "get" at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny.

You think that because you understand "one" that you must therefore understand "two" because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand "and." -Sufi teaching story