Quotes About Perspective

So content people may not have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything. That is who you want your children to be.

A man with an experience is not at the mercy of a man with an opinion.

Life is not a snapshot, it's a filmstrip.

We have a retirement crisis in America today nor from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision

I want you to have some nice stuff; I just don't want your nice stuff to have you.

She had the opportunity to spend time at Jesus' feet, and, instead, she's doing the dishes. I've done that! I've been so blinded by the work that I've totally missed the real blessing in a situation. That's what we do when we think that money or wealth or possessions or God's favor and blessings come only from our performance.

For her, it's profoundly absurd that people—specifically, fellow Americans . . . many of them educated, middle-class millennials who've never experienced anything like real hardship—can hate a country that frequently does so much good, both domestically and internationally.

And then things happened quickly. Too quickly, on so many wildly differing scales, for any single observer ever to fully comprehend them. And not necessarily in the entirely correct order, besides. . . In

The key to really learning how to deal with difficult people is to understand that it is OK to not understand why they are the way they are.

Managing with a long-term perspective is difficult in the face of the shareholder value emphasis, and other pressures, facing U.S. managers.

We will also do better when we can recognize the worry thoughts as signs of nervousness and anxiety, the same as an eye twitch or sweaty palms, rather than some important message about the future

Worry predictions aren't based on what's likely to happen. They're based on what would be terrible if it did happen. They're not based on probability—they're based on fear.

the expectation of receiving a reward will transform the nature of the sacrifice.

One day the Buddha came across an ascetic who sat by the bank of a river, and who had practiced austerities for twenty-five years. The Buddha asked him what he had got out of all his labor. The ascetic proudly replied that now at last he could cross the river by walking on the water. The Buddha tried to point out that this was little gain for so much labor, since for one penny the ferry would take him across.

Yet few are as deep-rooted and damaging as the habitual tendency to view the sensuous earth as a subordinate space—whether as a sinful plane, riddled with temptation, needing to be transcended and left behind; or a menacing region needing to be beaten and bent to our will; or simply a vaguely disturbing dimension to be avoided, superseded, and explained away.

America sure was a funny place to look at when you got far enough away,

The hardest math ever is Life, each one of us has a different question.

As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.

Svako pamti na svoj na?in, svako živi sam u svom svetu, svako misli da je on onaj misle?i subjekat koji nam svojim postojanjem omogu?ava da uživamo u onome što vidimo kao stvarnost sveta.

U nekom trenutku sve pri?e postaju iste, kaže pripoveda?, i sve vode do istog cilja. Veština je u tome, kaže pripoveda?, da se onaj koj sluša ili ?ita pri?u navede na pomisao da je pri?a koju upravo sluša ili ?ita ipak druga?ija od ostalih. Pripovedanje je, dakle, zavaravanje, kaže pripoveda?, pri?a je, zna?i, laž. (Pripovedanje i pri?a)

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen. —Leonardo da Vinci

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place.