Quotes About Perspective

Siempre que tengas ganas de criticar a alguien», me dijo, «sólo recuerda que todas las personas en este mundo no han tenido las ventajas que tú has tenido».

I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis.

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young.

Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual

Depression years come back to me now as the happy times, even though we were all struggling. We were happy and didn't know it.

Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, it isn't.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. I

I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.

Ida had always been different. At school, when all the kids used to play church, and one would be the preacher, another the preacher's wife, a deacon, and the choir leader, and some would be the parishioners who had come to the church, Ida said she wanted to be God, because she was the only one who knew how to do it. Of

Oh, I know a lot of people struggle, wondering is there really a God. They sit and think and worry over it all their life. The good Lord had to make smart people but I don't think he did them any favors because it seems the smart ones start questioning things from the get go. But I never did. I'm one of the lucky ones. I thank God every night, my brain is just perfect for me, not too dumb, not too bright.

Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train.

When you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis.

It's kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy.

You see, Elner, life is like one big roller-coaster ride, with all kinds of bumps and twists and turns, and ups and downs along the way." "Ahh," said Elner, "so all we have to do is just sit back and enjoy it." Raymond said, "Exactly. But the problem is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ most people think they are steering, and get so busy trying to control it that they miss all the fun parts." Elner

See what I mean? She thinks she sees all kinds of things out in the yard. Last week it was flying turtles." She walked over and picked up his dishes. "I'm not sure if it was that fall she took a while ago or just her age; she's older than God.

It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody.

Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?' Luke 12:25.

When you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them.