Quotes About Perspective

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

Canada is not the party. Its the apartment above the party.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.

When we look at other people comparatively and competitively, we're not seeing them as our brothers and sisters. We're not loving them more than we love ourselves, and we we're definitely not seeing them as God sees them.

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked.

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

I was valuing my survival more than sharing my faith.

Pharisees were the upstanding "conservative evangelical pastors" of their day, strongly convinced of the inerrancy of Scripture and its sufficiency for guidance in every area of life, if only it could be properly interpreted.69 Yet it is precisely such an environment in which a healthy perspective on the Bible can easily give way to legalism.

One can never satisfy a closed mind

Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.

Notice how the crucible of the story changes those who listen to it, those who are within it, and the person who is telling it, all at the same time.

If I was living in a happier place, said Eggingarde, I might tell stories with happier endings.

Worrying won't help it turn up any sooner. And look!" continued the giant. "If you waste your time worrying, how will you have a moment to see how beautiful the world is?

Who is to say that your friend's life is worth more than a Dragon's?' said One Eye, who was taking up most of the deck. 'It's worth more to me,' said Hiccup. 'Because I didn't know the Doomfang personally.

Was it possible that Warriors had been mistaken in their view of Magic all along? Could there be another way of looking at things, other than the Warrior way?....Wish's world view was spinning upside down, and that is always a difficult moment.

Dan tiba-tiba, aku menyadari dengan begitu jelas betapa kecilnya kita ini dibandingkan dengan lautan alam semesta. Seperti serangga yang sombong! Seperti amoeba yang sok! -Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

I had been immersed in the waters of the Great West Ocean, and came out a different person

It's only paranoia, whispered the Wodensfang, If things aren't out to get you...

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...

Who chooses what we know or what's important? I know I have to decide these things for myself.

Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them?