Quotes About Perspective

It's never the truth that changes.

Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not salvation.

one thing I've realized is that my life in its entirety is more important than any one aspect of it. And the sad truth is that until I met you I didn't have anything else.

he asked me if I was happy. But before I had a chance to respond, he said, "Don't answer that. It's a stupid question. I don't believe in the myth of happiness any more than you do." This is where Paul had it wrong. I did believe in the myth. I had to. Otherwise I don't think I would have been there. Happiness is elusive, for sure. But like love, and music, I believed in it because I could feel it.

Lying next to Eliza, I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost. We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds, until I said: "Don't swear off all fruit just because you ate one bad apple.

I was the least impressed with, a woman who thought Henry Miller was a police sitcom from the seventies.

Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not as salvation.

It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.

I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

He already knew that, "[i]f we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

where you live is just geography. And you can't measure happiness in dollars and cents.

If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind," Leviticus says. From where I was standing, though, there was no "lying with mankind" going on; it looked more like "one mankind plowing another mankind from behind.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

The main thing that prevents us from understanding the Bible aright is not a lack of hermeneutical skills but our sin.

Wright talks about how, in his role as chaplain, he would talk with students about their beliefs. Many would defiantly announce to him that they did not believe in God. So he would ask them to describe the "God" they did not believe in. Usually, they described a remote, deistic "God". "I don't believe in that 'God' either," he would reply. And then he would begin to talk about Jesus Christ.

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

G.K. Chesterton said: "People are equal in the same way pennies are equal. Some are bright, others are dull; some are worn smooth, others are sharp and fresh. But all are equal in value for each penny bears the image of the sovereign, each person bears the image of the King of Kings.

Just as China needs to learn more about the world, so does the world need to learn more about China. I hope you will continue your efforts to deepen mutual understanding between China and the world.

Mentally most of us are in between where we would like to be and where we are.

Something else that separates me from society: Super-Positive Perspective! Where normal people would whine about subpar accommodations, I choose to view it as upscale camping.