Quotes About Perspective

All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.

Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.

What you think to be a tragedy id God's opportunity to show Himself faithful.

Young people seem not to know that they are going to get old, but older people know that they are not going to become young again.

You live in a beautiful place and you don't act like you know it.

It seemed altogether right to him that they would drive through the small village of Paradise. It would be hard to find someone less demanding of life than Brown Dog and his current position was beyond his most strenuous ambitions.

To the white people, among whom I helplessly number myself, life is a very long and high set of stairs, but to my mother life was a river, a slow and stately wind across the sky, an endless sea of grass.

It didn't work to try to write about sex, doom, death, time, and the cosmos when you were thinking about a massive plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

Naturally, both sides of the family seemed utterly normal to me at the time but a great deal less so in retrospect.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

Some people blamed his oddities on his dyslexia, which was so severe that one giddy pediatrician called it a gift: While he might never learn how to spell or read better than the average fourth grader, he'd always see things the rest of us couldn't.

Two Iranians lectured him in broken English about the Bill of Rights, followed by an indignant Sri Lankan couple who scolded him for ruining their honeymoon. Brandon stepped into the woods to pee later that night and nine Venezuelans surrendered. The shit-magnet razzing roared to new heights.

One shouldn't take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.

Svi tvrde da postoji jedan svijet... Ja tvrdim da postoje dva... Jedan je moj, a drugi dijelite kako ho?ete...

a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.

Wildly, he declared that she was a whore at heart, that she had always been a whore, that she had been one when he met her. That was not true. In her early working life, as a photographer's model and cocktail waitress, she had occasionally given herself to men and received gifts in return. But it wasn't the same as whoring. She had liked the men involved. What she gave them was given freely, without bargaining, as were their gifts to her.

Rothman gave me another sharp look, and then he looked down at his desk. 'Lou' he said softly, 'do you know how many days a year an ironworker works? Do you know what his life expectancy is? Did you ever see an old ironworker? Did you ever stop to figure that there's all kinds of dying, but only one way of being dead?

That was the way one had to do. To do the best one could, and accept things as they were. Usually, they did not seem so bad after a while; if they were not actually good, then they became so by virtue of the many things that were worse. Almost everything was relatively good. Eating was better than starving, living better than dying

No me atrevería a decir que te equivocas, aunque tampoco podría darte la razón.

One megachurch pastor told me, "I only have our people for two hours per week, if I am lucky, and Fox News has them 24/7.

do you know the difference between a therapist and a terrorist?" "No," I replied. "Well," he said, "you can negotiate with a terrorist.

People still mourn when people die. That's self-sympathy. All human beings are selfish to a certain extent, and that's why people get so sad when someone dies. They haven't finished using him. The person who is dead ain't crying. Sadness is for when a baby is born into this heavy world, and joy should be exhibited at someone's death because they are going on to something more permanent and infinitely better.

Now if 6 turned out to be 9, I don't mind, I don't mind.

If we couldnt laugh we would all go insane.