Quotes About Perspective

The pieces don't fit perfectly together and don't tell the whole story. Only the viewer can say if I succeeded.

Once you know what true for you, it'll all get clearer.

You don't have to be in your later quarter of life to benefit from a future time perspective. Unplugging yourself from the present and projecting your dreams into the future can help you reach fulfillment at any age.

What is it about a future time perspective that is so beneficial? Researchers believe that people who can project themselves into the future are more optimistic, have a stronger sense of purpose, and are able to press past petty disappointments. They see the big picture and avoid being weighed down by the strains of their present circumstances. As in the study of college students, they feel more engaged in what they're doing because they see where it's leading them.

But when you hear the same stories over and over again, from people from all over the world, you start realizing that transgender is not an anomaly. It's a part of the spectrum of people's realities. Then you stop wondering about the cause and you start realizing it's a part of reality.

I don't even recognize that life and the person living it from my spot on this bed.

your needs mean nothing to me. Just as history has proven that my needs mean nothing to you.

Please teach me to appreciate what I have, before time forces me to appreciate what I had.

Her father's words suddenly came to her, Considering people who are undergoing situations much worse than yours doesn't make yours any easier, but it can help to change your perspective.

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.

Boredom might be construed as the impetus for achievement rather than as an obstacle to it.

Have you ever considered whether Perth's 'dullness' may have inspired you rather than inhibited you?

Time has a way of fixing memories so they have their own truth, even if years later they deceive you.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. And sometimes you have to find those happy places in between the pain.

Maybe if we saw love more in each other, it might be easier to look up and accept it from God.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

And I can also believe that God hasn't abandoned me just because my life blew up. Feelings aren't facts. The truth is that God loves me. And is up to something good in my life. Something you pointed out to me just a few weeks ago, bro.

You're just mad because God didn't answer your prayer the way you wanted him to.

Maybe that was the key-just because she'd made a mistake with her life didn't mean that God did, and it hopefully didn't change the way God saw her.

I'm saying that we don't know how God protects us. How he is there for us, but he is. We live our life seeing only our perspective—seeing our circumstances and judging God by what happens to us. But what if we judged God by what didn't happen to us? What if we started asking . . . God, what is your view? What did you protect me from?

me for a minute and play devil's advocate." She leaned forearms on the table.

He took a deep breath, glanced at the mountains, then looked at Dean again. Alex: It doesn't matter if you think you're made to have kids, or not, marriage or not. If you've found someone who makes you want all those things, then you don't let the chance go by. (Chapter 14)

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

I think literature reveals more about us than history does.