Quotes About Perspective

funny how what you're used to seems like it's right even if it's bad.

You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you." She

The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They'd

Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats.

I am transported to the time before the War between the States, a time that is bred into our awareness as Southerners, yet most often lauded as a day of grace and grandeur. Mr. Bass Carter causes me to wonder . . . how different is that history when seen from the fields and the lowly slave cabins?

When we have little else, our stories still have value.

How sad, I think now, to live an entire life blinded by the ordinary.

the past travels with you. It's whether you run from it or learn from it that makes all the difference.

It's history," I pointed out. "I'm trying to impress upon my students that everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway

It's funny how when you think you've got problems, you usually don't have to look far to find someone who's in a lot worse shape.

Ever'body got a reason for what they do. You eat off somebody else's plate, drink a their cup, could be, you'd be that same way.

Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's.

So often it is our narrow focus that limits us, she is saying. When we look only at our own plans, we miss the infinite possibilities of a greater plan.

She looked around the room then, and her eyes got misty, and she said we kids oughta remember there was a time when some folks had it a lot harder than others. I couldn't see how things were so different now.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get

because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and sang as white birds in the trees Because the story of our life becomes our life Because each of us tells the same story but tells it differently and none of us tells it the same way twice . . (from, Why We Tell Stories)

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see the world have changed.

You need to take a historical perspective. You can't make sweeping statements about anything in the world, and there's never been an ideal time when everything made sense—it's just a question of how you look at the advancing tide and deal with remnants of the old order.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.