Quotes About Perspective

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal.

In ten years, we will each look in the mirror, and someone will stare back. That person will be shaped by the thoughts of today.

So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to ask ourselves, "Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?

Nuestra cultura nos ha condicionado para que creamos que aquellas cosas que no tenemos son las que nos harán felices… sin detenernos a pensar en que todas esas cosas hace cinco años ni siquiera existían.

One can be truly happy only as long as one does not know how truly happy one is. Having

Thinking you're not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.

cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Makes you feel better when you shoot people . . . You ought to try it sometime.

You do have one prejudice though. I looked back at her again from under the brim of my hat. "You don't care about the living as much as you do the dead.

There's a kind of cocksure attitude that overtakes a man in the presence of the dearly departed, a you're-dead-and-I'm-not kind of perspective.

Life is like that." He flipped through a few more limp pages. "You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures." He grunted. "And they are all we are left with.

They have a saying, the Basque. That just because the cat has kittens in the oven, it doesn't make them biscuits.

As the saying goes, a cynic is the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

He studied me. "You were in Nam?" I nodded. "Yep." He turned to Lolo. "Hey, Chief, how many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" She stared at him. "I don't know." He pointed his cigar at her in an agitated fashion. "That's right, because you weren't there, man!" We

You collect things as you go—the things you think are important—and soon they weigh you down until you realize that these things you cared so much about mean nothing at all. Our natures are our natures." He grunted. "And they are all we are left with.

I do not worry about dying and someday I will die - whereas you worry about dying and someday you will die

had that feeling, not so much that I was falling, but that the world was receding.

You can convince yourself that you're on solid ground and nothing's going to happen to you up to this point, but when you have nowhere to look but down, the game changes. I had the benefit of not being able to see very far, but it was as if the dancing flakes snapping into the distance and disappearing from view were pulling at me, reaching and trying to take me with them into the darkness.

Funny how your attitude about spirituality could change when the chips were down.

no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .

If money makes the world go round, it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.

Adversity may initially appear as the enemy, however somewhere along it's journey it will reappear in the form of a friend, bringing about positive change

That's the trouble with witnesses. They always look at the wrong things.

I am not no swine," Archie said. He spread peanut butter on his bread, dotted it with cream cheese and jam, added a piece of ham, and finally topped it with a wedge of banana. "Because a swine is two or more pigs, and I'm only one pig." He added an olive to his masterpiece by way of garnish, and bit off a good quarter of it.