Quotes About Perspective

You take the bad with the good, Rise up through it. Live in the mist of it. It's the bad that lets you know ho good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't any good. There is, and lots of it, too.

forgive your enemies...it messes with their heads.

F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

Because of Jesus, we can view life as a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

I am convinced that life is 10% of what happens to me and 90 % how I react. And so it is with you, we are in charge of our Attitudes.

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.

Philosophers are people who talk about something they don't understand and make you think it's your fault!1

Any idea, no matter how bizarre, can seem mainstream if you're able to find a handful of others who will believe along with you.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one's god module is overactive at the time.

There are two types of people in this world," Pete volunteers helpfully, "those who think there are only two types of people in the world, and everybody else.

As Terry Pratchett observed, inside every eighty-year-old man is an eight-year-old wondering what the hell just happened to him

The glass isn't half-empty or half-full. What you're looking at is half a pint of depreciable assets sitting in a pint of capital infrastructure that can be amortized over two accounting periods. ... Is there an engineering one? ... Yes! It's quite simple: That's half a pint, all that's wrong is the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Hate the sin, love the sinner: it's hard to stay pissed off at someone for doing something wrong if you know you'd have done exactly the same thing if you'd been standing in their shoes.)

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience—it just depends on which one's god module is overactive at the time.

Her father stood stiffly, as if his knees ached. Of a sudden Evie realized that he was, in fact, old: or at least middle-aged, which from a twenty-three-year-old perspective was the same thing. Hair thinning and graying to ashy silver, belly sagging over the waistband of the jeans he wore on his day off, a reminder that he'd met her mother after a rock concert in 1980.

Not our circus, not our monkeys," I murmur, and he nods.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.

Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.

Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.

A truth presented by Satan himself is just as true as a truth stated by God.