Quotes About Perspective

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

The eyes are hammers.

I'd never compared myself to being dead before, but it was the only thing I could think of. The only thing worse than the situation I faced.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

When we come to understand that the Christian life is something that I "get to do," not something I "have to do," then we are coming near to the Christ life.

I've heard someone say that faith can be defined as living in advance what you will understand only in reverse.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

the world could be wonderfully exotic when viewed through the bottom of a cocktail glass.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Arguing is really saying, "If you were really more like me, then I could like you better.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

At nine, all fathers are perfect. At twenty-nine, they're not so perfect.

the greatest journeys of our lives begin so simply that we don't even know we've embarked on them until we're well down the road looking back.

Those who have different experiences and cultures will have ideas that can benefit us if we choose to be exposed to them.

Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened.

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a gift to be opened.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

We want God to change situations. God wants to change us in them.

Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

You'll see it when you believe it.