Quotes About Perspective

In our youth, we may have ridiculed the cost-of-living-index family, with their house, two cars, and two kids, but today we are pro-family. We have seen the damage done by the previous generation and have doubled our efforts when it comes to caring for our families. Our children come first.

Life is not only measured by what happens to us. It is measured by the way in which we interpret what happens to us.

In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful.

in the latter half of the twentieth century, postmodernism upended everything. Universal truths were no longer accepted. "Truth" (postmodernism loves quotation marks) was instead a social construct that depended heavily on cultural context. Nothing was either true or false, but was instead open to interpretation.

By exclaiming that "there are no absolute truths" the postmodern stance is also claiming that the statement it just made is an absolute truth—trying to have it both ways, rejecting absolutism with absolutism.

It is almost impossible to get anyone with a postmodern slant to say "I think" and stand by what follows, without making sure that the person listening understands, "Of course, there are other things to consider.

That's the problem, isn't it? Our youth enamored society hides death from us, makes us believe that we will live forever," Jack asserted, rather forcefully. "We don't want to see death. We even hide old people so that we don't have to be reminded of our own mortality. In other cultures, old age is celebrated, embraced even. Death is a part of life.

Moral growth corresponds with people's ability to see the world from an ever-increasing number of perspectives and act accordingly.

Walk into any mosque, temple, church, or synagogue and you will find differing examples, different ways of interpreting God. The One True God is hard to find when a mishmash of human traits is constantly being projected.

By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.

We, the willing, should practice the art of lifting the ideological veil and seeing co-humanity everywhere.

I nichilisti odiano i pessimisti: chiunque conosca la verità del dolore intralcia i loro piani per l'incremento dell'infelicità del mondo.

Chúng ta s?ng trong hi?n t?i v?i ?ôi m?t b? b?t kín, Ch? mãi sau này , khi tháo kh?n b?t m?t ra và nhìn l?i quá kh? , chúng ta m?i th?y ???c nh?ng gì ?ã s?ng và hi?u ???c ý ngh?a c?a chúng.

Et si nous étions tous à la poursuite de quelque chose que nous possédons déjà?

Certains souvenirs sont comme un cancer : une rémission n'est pas toujours une guérison.

U svakom slu?aju, on je bio tog uverenja da ništa nije zauvek i definitivno završeno.

Comme Margaret Atwood, je pense que vouloir rencontrer un écrivain parce qu'on aime son livre, c'est comme vouloir rencontrer un canard parce qu'on aime le foie gras.

U getu nema budu?nosti, nema perspektive. Jedina realna ambicija ovde je preživeti ili pobe?i.

Ako želite da budete sre?ni, ne treba po svaku cenu da bežite od nesre?e. Pre bi trebalo da gledate kako i zahvaljuju?i kome, nesre?u možete prevazi?i. ~ Boris Sirilnik ~

It does not always work, but sometimes, for a few hours, fiction is genuinely more powerful than life.

No debemos perder de vista nuestra idea».

Son ciertas las mentiras que ha dicho el que dice la verdad.

No alcanzabas el uno sesenta de estatura y con tu voz estentórea, tu seguridad, tu paso marcial opacabas a gente que te sacaba veinte centímetros. Yo era de esos que te rebasaban por una cabeza y aun así te recuerdo mucho más alto que yo. Si le preguntaras a quien te conoció cuál era tu estatura, con seguridad te situarían arriba del uno ochenta. Es extraño cómo una personalidad como la tuya puede cambiar el sentido de las proporciones.

It's important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren't the only ones to triumph in war.