Quotes About Perspective

Tant que les lions n'auront pas leurs propres historiens, l'histoire de la chasse glorifiera toujours le chasseur

Travelers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves.

We wrote about politics so you can write about daffodils

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

There was an unexpected freedom in finding out that one wasn't as important as one had always assumed!

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

A situation in itself," he said, "is neither happy nor unhappy. It's only your response to it that causes your sorrow.

A problem becomes a problem only if you believe it to be so. And often others see you as you see yourself." I

But when you're depressed, you think baloney is filet mignon. You score it, marinate it, and slap it on the grill. But when you finally bite into it, reality sets in (or is it heartburn?) and you realize it ain't steak---it's baloney.

Sometimes it's our stinkin' thinkin' that gets us in trouble. You know---one stinkin' thought leads to another, which leads to another, which leads to another. Eventually the smell will kill you!

But our tendency to give scarcity more attention than abundance has caused us to ignore the many examples of abundance that have arisen in our own lifetime, like corn, for starters. The problem is that once something becomes abundant, we tend to ignore it

In a Google world, meaning and ontology are entirely in the eyes and minds of the beholder. One thing can be many different things to many different people.

En un mundo de infinitas opciones, el contexto —no el contenido— es el rey.

We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday.

In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was an element of wishful thinking whenever she had come across corpses that young.

Don't judge me. I mean that. You have a great husband and two sweet kids—" "They're sixteen and thirteen. They stopped being sweet years ago

Humans struggle with the underside of the tapestry, unable to see the beauty in their situation, for they cannot know how the trouble of life fits with The Plan.

And then a wave of peace washed over her and told her it wasn't where she lived that mattered, but that she was walking with Him.

The past is like grace. It's not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need. On

Nobody knows that but you and God. And you don't even know the half of it. You see, he looks at our lives as a whole, not just today, tomorrow, yesterday, and next week. Not even this year and next. He's not counting your failures and your mistakes and keeping a running tab like heaven's waiter. He sees the end just as well as the beginning. He knows about the pit you're in right now.

Old age teaches you in a very unkind way that things won't necessarily get better. Not in this life. In fact, you can pretty much count on things degenerating. Being content is not a lack of ambition. It's being able to rest and relax and know that your worth doesn't come from what others think of you or even what you think of you.

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

Lord, thank You," Elizabeth whispered. "Thank You for Your mercy and Your goodness. Thank You for answering. And help me focus on the things I can see You doing instead of the things I can't see.