Quotes About Perspective

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Christians tend simply to align themselves with secular and idolatrous ideologies, and they do this without integrating fully into their thinking the ways in which kingdom priorities ought to arrange a Christian's perspective on the society by holding love, human dignity, and solidarity in healthy tension. Anthony Bradley in Morgan, Christopher W.; Peterson, Robert A. (2012-11-30). The Kingdom of God (Theology in Community) (Kindle Locations 4636-4638). Crossway. Kindle Edition.

The West is eveningland, the East morningland.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

I think you're failing to focus on the big picture." "It's only when one focuses on the small picture," James said, "that the full horror of this scheme becomes apparent.

Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe.

Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.

To put it another way, there are lots of things happening to us whether we believe in them or not.

Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn't tolerance but condescension.

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?

Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them.

People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, "Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.

I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.

What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. As well

Neuroti?ar je osoba koja brine zbog ne?ega što se nije dogodilo u prošlosti. On nije kao mi, normalni ljudi, koji brinemo zbog ne?ega što se ne?e dogoditi u budu?nosti.

All suffering is caused by my identifying myself with something, whether that something is within me or outside of me.

I feel good because the world is right." Wrong! The world is right because I feel good.