Quotes About Perspective

My first hurdle came before we even left. Steve's little dog Sui was coming with us, and she realized that I would be taking her place next to Steve in the front of the truck. "Move over, Sui," I said. She turned and glared at me, for all the world like a jealous woman. I couldn't help but laugh. She was such a cute thing, and she looked at Steve with such rapture, joy, and love, that I had to forgive her for hating me.

Gratitude means you stop focusing on what you don't have and start focusing on what you do have.

turn your complaints into praise and watch what God can do!

As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.

Change What You're Saying and You'll Change What You're Seeing

if you are 42 years old, you only have 36 more Christmases left with your family. If you are 57 years old, you only have 21 more summers to enjoy at the lake. If you're 63 years old, that's 15 more birthday cakes with your family. Fifteen! That's nothing! It makes you view life more seriously, doesn't it?

Because your voice is the most influential voice in your life! If you want to see where your life is headed, listen to the words that are coming out of your mouth.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.

Old people poke me at weddings and tell me "your next" So I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds ' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.

We live in a world in which there is nothing that cannot be narrated, but nothing that needs to be either.

It's as if the future is coming to us faster than we are heading to it. I think it was the author William Gibson who suggested that global stocks of cognitive dissonance are currently so high they threaten to make the traditional idea of science fiction redundant. And once you reach my age, you tend to find that the individual days become really long, but the years get shorter, which only distorts your temporal perspective still further.

You can't argue with the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

I said, "No, you're physically challenged. You're breathing hard from climbing the stairs. I'm disabled.

Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

That's the nature of praise. It draws our attention away from our problems, no matter how overwhelming they are, and lifts our gaze to God.

Life should be seen through the lens of praise.

Thanksgiving helps us focus on the answer rather than the problem.

Every writer, of course, has very specific ideas about editors. But writers seldom get the last word on anything.