Quotes About Perspective

She and her friends would talk about their husbands like they were children, or pets - some strange species responsible for bad smells and strange noises and messes they'd have to clean up.

And remember-no woman ever said, on her deathbed, I wish I'd eaten less cake.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world and these days, they're all online.

Have you ever considered that there might be something wrong with your brain? Oh, I think there might be something wrong with everyone else's.

you can't control what they do, but you can control how you respond to it … whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what they're doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much you'll let it affect you.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they're all online

But if, in the end, she never lived the glittering, rich-lady life of her youthful imaginings, she'd have a life that made her happy.

the hours can feel long, but the years go by fast.

Why would you want to spend your money to go to countries where the people are so poor that they'd do anything to come over here?

the world was not a rancid bag of garbage. At least, it wasn't just that. There was happiness, too.

remembered something my father had told me, about the comments I'd gotten after my bar-fight video had come out: When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When you're angry, everything looks like a target. There are a lot of angry people in the world. And these days, they're all online.

Eight years older than me

Better Peter than me

or maybe even back to my parents' place, away from all these beautiful people who, just by living, made me feel inadequate, at once enormous and small.

It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

Time has the power to separate us, not only from others, but also from ourselves—a fact that's hard to grasp. We know that time also separates us from circumstances that might have turned us into very different people.

The older he gets, the more grateful he is to have just as little idea as anyone else what is in store.

Ein Bild, das bleibt immer so, wie es ist und nur soweit das Bild reicht, bliebt alles so, wie es ist.

Wenn man verstehen will, was einer meint oder sagt, muss man im Grunde das, was er meint oder sagt, immer schon wissen. Ist dann ein gelungener Dialog nur Wiedererkennen? Und das Verstehen nicht etwas ein Weg, sondern vielmehr ein Zustand?

But if this prosperity couldn't be attributed to their own personal merit, then by the same token the refugees weren't to blame for their reduced circumstances. Things might have turned out the other way around. For a moment, this thought opens its jaws wide, displaying its frightening teeth.

Knowing yourself lets you understand others.

Thus, a godly man wonders at his cross that it is not more, a wicked man wonders his cross is so much:

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

when the heart of a man has nothing to do, but to be busy about creature-comforts, every little thing troubles him; but when the heart is taken up with the weighty things of eternity, with the great things of eternal life, the things of here below that disquieted it before are things now of no consequence to him in comparison with the other-how things fall out here is not much regarded by him, if the one thing that is necessary is provided for.