Quotes About Perspective

If two people have been able to experience the same thing even once, they will be able to understand each other.

Ann Coulter is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual

air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.

is necessarily limited by his lack of knowledge of the circumstances

Every person who can, even at a sacrifice, make the voyage around the world should do so. All other travel compared to it seems incomplete, gives us merely vague impressions of parts of the whole.

All the good thoughts have already been had. What we're left with is trite redundant nothingness, or shitposting. I choose the latter.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.

As an apologetic strategy, it only makes sense to meet people where they are. Where else, indeed, can they be met?

Don't be like the frog. Keep an eye on the big picture. Constantly review what's happening around you, not just what you personally are doing.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938 Engineers

There is no such thing as a best solution, be it a tool, a language, or an operating system.

Don't Think Outside the Box—Find the Box

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea if it's the only one you have. • Emil-Auguste Chartier, Propos sur la religion, 1938

There's one technique that you must use if you want people to listen to you: listen to them.

I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high-whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops-is inherently suspect.

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

The world believes, "Success makes you happy." The truth is; happiness makes you successful. The Happier You Get …

Every "disaster" in your life is not so much a disaster, as a situation waiting for you to change your mind about it.

YOU CAN'T FIX LIFE BY WORKING ON THE OUTSIDE.

Nor can we see the coffin of a person we have known, without experiencing some new shock of loss. In this respect, a coffin is like a mirror, in which we see the image of our own condition, and understand that our human differences, whether of appearance, morality or wealth, must finally be reconciled.

How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.

There is such a danger of our being more occupied with the things that are coming than with Him who is to come.