Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.

some place to stand and place a lever, there's nowhere from which to move the world.

While some people cannot see the forest for the trees, others cannot see the trees for the forest. Sometimes we can more easily love the world than the ones whom God places in front of us.

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

One is forced to examine one's life when trapped in the wall by a Murphy bed.

amazing how quickly Satan can use what's supposed to be a blessing and a gift from God to derail you into a place where you're thankless for the gift. You focus on what you don't have instead.

Readers often feel they know an author because they've read their books. To a degree, this is often true. We write from our individual worldviews, using the beliefs and understanding we have of the world and others.

You don't have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.

That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding.

I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah?

Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.

It felt now as if I'd never known them and I couldn't know them again. It seemed to me that whatever had existed back in the place where I'd grown up was so far away now, impossible to retrieve.

We aren't poor," my mother said, again and again. "Because we're rich in love.

Eight of the ten things you have decided about yourself at the age of twenty will, over time, prove to be false. The other two things will prove to be so true that you'll look back in twenty years and howl.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told.O

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story

I was a pebble. I was a leave. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.

Living at large like this, without even a roof over my head, made the world feel both bigger and smaller to me.

Privilege has a way of fucking with our heads the same way as lack of it does.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told.

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity.

When you feel terrible because someone has gotten something you want, you force yourself to remember how very much you have been given. You remember that there is plenty for all of us. You remember that someone else's success has absolutely no bearing on your own.