Quotes About Perspective

We all don't have to see eye to eye in order to see our way to the Kingdom. It's the heart condition of each man that the Lord will judge.

Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them. If you hope people will change how they live, you have to know how they live. If you want people to see you, you have to sit down with them eye-to-eye.

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

It's said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality.

The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I've ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, "Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!

I'm also now immune to politicians who say, "I've traveled the length and breadth of this great land, and I know..." I've traveled more than any of them, and I don't know.

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.

YOU CANNOT THINK YOURSELF INTO RIGHT LIVING. YOU LIVE YOURSELF INTO RIGHT THINKING. —Native Elders

There are black doctors and doctors and women novelists and novelists. Any less powerful group gets the adjective, while the powerful group takes the noun. The less powerful group usually knows the more powerful one much better than vice versa. People of color have to understand white people in order to survive; women have had to know men. Only the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves.

You can travel without traveling, and you can not travel -- yet travel. Being on the road is a state of mind.

It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.

No wonder oral history turns out to be more accurate than written history. The first is handed down from the many who were present. The second is written by the few who probably weren't.

The word 'still' has entered my life. People say to me, 'You're still traveling, you're still wearing blue jeans.

Women have to learn how to talk as much as we listen. Men have to learn how to listen as much as they talk.

I'm not sure we can understand another country if we don't understand our own.