Quotes About Perspective

It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

Maybe it's still worth it to me, even if it doesn't last forever," he said. "Maybe you're still worth it to me.

Did you ever notice that when you read the same book again and again, the book doesn't change, but you do?

That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we don't change. Only the people around us change.

The artwork is just the settings, or the other characters. You have to make the plot yourself.

You can't only think about endings," he said. "There's no point to that. Endings are something you and I will never understand.

I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.

You don't believe in evil," she said slowly. "For you everything is just a misunderstanding.

Sometimes its good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.

I've been so caught up with mapping out a picture-perfect "forever" that I'm completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

Mjesec, sad velik na nebu, nije ih ni primijetio. Možda nije ni mogao. Možda njegovo lice i nije na strani koju smo oduvijek tako zvali. Kad promislite bolje, ne biste li i vi svoj pogled radije okrenuli zvijezdama?

Others see obstacles; I see opportunities.

Sometimes it takes suffering to reveal to us just how rich we are.

Sometimes it takes suffering to reveal to us just how rich we are. It

How many times do we miss blessings simply because we weren't looking for them? We get busy and distracted. We get stuck in bad moods. We think too much about ourselves—what I need and want. When our minds are stuck on all that is wrong, we miss all the wonderful things God puts in our path.

Thich Nhat Hanh says that he was inspired to write the poem in 1976 when he first heard about the rape and suicide of the twelve-year-old girl spoken of in the poem. "I learned," he says, "after meditating for several hours that I could not just take sides against the pirate. I saw that if I had been born in his village and brought up under the same conditions, I would be exactly like him. Taking sides is too easy" (Nhat Hanh, 1993, p. 107).

In hermeneutics, this phenomenon is called preunderstanding—the understanding one has about a subject before researching it, or the understanding one has about what a text is probably saying before one begins to study it.5

In fact, what is amazing about this find is that scholars of every stripe—conservative Christians, liberal Christians, believers in Judaism, and secular Jewish scholars—agreed en masse that the special had missed the mark and hadn't come close to making its case.

Many, if not most, theological liberal scholars have backgrounds as fundamentalists or evangelicals.

However, the documentary reveals how far people will go to try to make Christianity into Jesusanity;

In sum, our book is a look at the tale of two stories and a consideration of whether one or the other story places us closer to the real Jesus, closer to our Creator, and, as a result, closer to ourselves.

Darrell L. Bock