Quotes About Perspective

of each other, and I daresay we'd all be rather boring.

You're three years older than I. That hardly makes you an ancient crone. Besides, I prefer my women seasoned.Hmm.She arched a brow.With salt or pepper?A little of both.

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

I am the lucky one; my child is not dead. Just saying that makes me an anomaly in the current opioid crisis that is ravaging through our country.

Whoever reaches into a rosebush may seize a handful of flowers; but no matter how many one holds, it's only a small portion of the whole. Nevertheless, a handful is enough to experience the nature of the flowers. Only if we refuse to reach into the bush, because we can't possibly seize all the flowers at once, or if we spread out our handful of roses as if it were the whole of the bush itself -- only then does it bloom apart from us, unknown to us, and we are left alone.

The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Du bist nicht ein Ziel für mich, Du bist tausend Ziele... und ich... führe Dir alles zu bei meinem Dir-entgegengehn.

It was like the old joke: the operation was a success but the patient died. Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.

For so long I'd been doing what I'd accused other people of doing—I was seeing the deafness, not the people.

For the first time, it hit me that my mother and father were deaf.

For the past two weeks, you've been reading about a bad break. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Never tell your problems to anyone . . . 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" Christmas.

The notion that everybody's bisexual is a very popular line right now, but I think its validity is limited.

My father would say things that make no sense, like, "If I were the last person on earth, some moron would turn left in front of me."

When you're young, you do drugs that could kill you. When you get old, you just want drugs that can keep you alive. Full circle, baby.

Anyway, Lisa probably said it best: "We made our own happiness but I don't think we were a happy family.

admitting we are not God—not in control, not running anything, not responsible for everyone's well-being, not the solution for everything and everyone, not at the center of all things—doesn't belittle us; it frees us.

As long as our eyes are on the problem, and the solution lies within ourselves, the X's are going to pile up on the calendars of our fight, marking the days little to nothing has changed. But all that changes the day Jesus enters our Valley of Elah. The moment we stop staring at our giant and lock eyes with Jesus. The moment our hope shifts from us to him.

Worship is like corrective lenses for our souls, bringing God clearer into view. That's important for all of us, especially when life goes off the rails.