Quotes About Perspective

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

Nobody makes anybody enlightened.Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

Gratitude takes less energy than anger.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

The world has room for many people who are content to live as humans, but only for a relative few intent upon living as giants or as gods.

Uncle Burley said hills always looked blue when you were far away from them. That was a pretty color for hills; the little houses and barns and fields looked so neat and quiet tucked against them. It made you want to be close to them. But he said that when you got close they were like the hills you'd left, and when you looked back your own hills were blue and you wanted to go back again. He said he reckoned a man could wear himself out going back and forth.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, even about the you children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.