Quotes About Perspective

It's important not to get lost among the trees and forget about the amazing, beautiful forest you're planting.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

Your error is that you think this world is the reality. In truth, eternity is the reality and this life is but a shadow, a place to develop our character and grow more like Jesus.

If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.

Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year-old men more.

The larger the universe gets, it seems, the smaller and less important we humans appear. As one novelist put it, the history of astronomy is the history of increasing humiliation.

Spanish physicist Beatriz Gato-Rivera has questioned whether we could be immersed in a larger civilization without being aware of it. She notes that "typical civilizations of typical galaxies" would likely be hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years more evolved than our own.

I've been accused of teaching a one-sided course, that I don't expose students to the other side, except that my course is the other side—the one that students aren't getting in conventional history or political science courses that present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.

Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.

Q: Why write about slavery? Haven't we had enough stories about slavery? Why do we need another one? A: I could have written about upper middle class white people who feel sad sometimes, but there's a lot of competition.

Dans la vie y'a pas de grands, y'a pas de petits. La bonne longueur pour les jambes, c'est quand les pieds touchent par terre. In life, there are no tall or short people. The right length for a person's legs is when their feet touch the ground.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

A lesson can be learnt from every person.

Appreciate the good times because you know the bad are always coming.

Death not only takes, but gives. It makes you realise what is important.

Don't be blinded by the lights of the world.

Everything matters and nothing matters.

He gave me the strength to see passed all that is trivial in this world and to focus on that which matters most.

Make what you wish of Him for He is as much yours as He is mine.

Meet not my creator will I for I am but a mere dot among dots within a dot on a black canvas of dots.