Quotes About Perspective

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.

and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.

Don't forget:beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies.

Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.

What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.

I'm like everyone else - I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.

The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons.

Nothing is completely wrong, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Sin was not created by God; it was created by us when we tried to transform what was inevitable into something subjective. We ceased to see the whole and came to see just one part; and that part is loaded with guilt, rules, good versus evil, and each side thinking it's right.

Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend.

Life is too short to waste time complaining Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear

life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.

Time heals everything, don't you think?" That depends. Time can often make things worse.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly.

He was sure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.