Quotes About Perspective

It's amazing how much time it takes to gather money, and how little time it takes for life to intervene.

People need help with perspective sometimes. If they're all alone in their own head, they can lose perspective. Sometimes you need to use somebody else like a mirror. Let them reflect back to you the way the world really is.

What I think I should do is more important to me than what you think I should do. But that doesn't mean your opinion has no value to me at all.

Why is it that years can go by, and it feels like nothing moves, and then the whole world changes three or four times in a couple of weeks?

Our problem is not that you feel one way and I feel another. Our problem is coming to us from outside this house.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right. Anyway,

we weren't put here on earth to take care of each other. And that it's silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they're just being who they are. She said it's like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat." Then

I mean . . . you just make the best of happy while you've got it, right?

And I think to myself, If you think having and losing is so bad, try never having. Now that's devastating.

That's the thing about this other side we're on. There is no landscape. If you want to see things in any kind of context, you have to pick a context. You have to take one from home.

Why not make it into something better?" "Because it's enough.

As long as I live, I'm never going to do what they're doing. I made myself a promise. And now I'm making the promise to you. I'm never going to judge somebody I don't know. And if somebody is accused of something in the newspaper or on TV, I'm going to remember that maybe he did it or maybe he didn't. I wasn't there, so I don't know.

if you meet someone you don't like, or who doesn't treat you right, try to reserve judgment, because you don't know what that person's going through, and it's probably not so much about you at all.

Sometimes people are scared of a thing that won't hurt them. But they're not scared for no reason. They're just not scared for the reason they think they are.

was grateful, because the world looked beautiful in that big storm, and because I knew that somewhere in the world there was somebody who didn't have a can of hot soup, and I did.

Just for a moment, Ethan felt his view of life, of the world, stretched painfully. He had never realized that something so frightening could also be beautiful. That a sight could strike fear into his heart and at the same time make him feel privileged to have seen it.

He's not like the other cops. What does it mean, that I thought that? That I hated him so much?" "That you're human?" "Isn't that really bad, though? I mean, what does that say about me?" I sighed. "Considering you just saw yourself doing it . . . made that observation all on your own, at age thirteen . . . I'd say that puts you quite a bit ahead of most of the adults I know.

Raymond wondered how it would feel to live in a world where a flight of stairs stood as a massive

What I think I should do is more important to me than what you think

Middle children become great listeners. They understand the value of acknowledging others' positions and feelings, and use this information as ammunition to help them get what they want.

is often considered to be something children use in play and then discard when they become adults and put away childish things. We are therefore not surprised to learn that children use their imagination to enter stories, to experience them, and even to meet God there, but few adults think of using their imagination to meet God. However, following the lead of children could enrich the spiritual walk for adults.

A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination...or a headache.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

It is idle to ask those who never listen whether and how God answers prayer. Caroline Stephen, 1891