Quotes About Perspective

To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses.

in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value. But

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

by embracing literary theory, we learn about literature, but more important we are also taught tolerance for other people's beliefs. By rejecting or ignoring theory, we are in danger of canonizing ourselves as literary saints who possess divine knowledge and who can, therefore, supply the one and only correct interpretation for a given text.

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist.

Who is to say that pleasure is useless?

You are a separate individual among other separate individuals in a universe that is separate from you as well.

Alphabets therefore encourage an atomistic conception of meaning and, by extension, of the universe

Thus, what we observe to be happening in the world says as much about ourselves as it does about the world. It reveals what we think is important, significant, valuable, and sacred, and what is irrelevant or useless too. Put another way, what we see reveals how we see.

The Situational Character: A Critical Realist Perspective on the Human Animal" by Jon D. Hanson and David G. Yosifon, along with its companion piece, "The Situation: An Introduction to the Situational Character, Critical Realism, Power Economics, and Deep Capture." Situationism

Time is life. When we experience time as scarce, we experience life as short and poor.

People tend to conceptualize problems in such a way as to validate the tools that are familiar and available to them. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If all you have are antibiotics, you will always look for the germ. If all you have is a mindset of war, then you will always look first for an enemy.

Stories, like all beings, have a life span. In their youth, their immune system is strong, but as time goes on they become increasingly unable to withstand the contrary evidence and experiences that pile up. In the end, I could no longer believe my own story. Who I had to be to maintain it—cynical, dismissive, patronizing, holding back from new experiences—became intolerable.

We do not have a new story yet.

NOT "What's good for General Motors is good for the country.

Not what you think once in a while when you are in church, or have just read a good book, but your predominant mental attitude is what counts.    19.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment

Change your focus from the gift to the Giver—from the blessing to the One who bestows it.

In His presence . . . seek God's view of others.

Cuando Job estaba sumido en el desastre su mujer se burló de él, diciendo: «¿Aún retienes tu integridad? Maldice a Dios, y muérete» (Job 2.9). Es evidente que Satanás estaba obrando para tratar de distorsionar la perspectiva que Job tenía de Dios.

Meditar en las cosas buenas de la vida significa que su mente está dominada, impregnada, totalmente cautivada y completamente ocupada por buenas ideas, conceptos y perspectivas. ¿Qué significa esto para nosotros de forma práctica? Cuando decidimos pensar en cosas que nos inspiran, nos animan, nos enseñan y nos edifican emocionalmente, descubrimos que queremos seguir la voluntad de Dios, y anhelaremos permanecer fieles a Él.

Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?" LUKE 12:25 NLT

Unlimited Vision SCRIPTURE READING: ISAIAH 6:1–8 KEY VERSE: PSALM 33:11

Far too often, we want to see miles beyond where we are standing. The reason living life for Christ is a walk of faith is because this is what we are called to do. Trust Him for today and tomorrow and all the days that will follow.