Quotes About Perspective

We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.

What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see.

What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see. Bob

I shift my focus from trying to fix the other person and the situation to allowing God to reveal some tender truths to me.

No desarrollaremos respuestas nuevas hasta que desarrollemos pensamientos nuevos. Es por eso que resulta crucial renovar nuestra mente con nuevos pensamientos.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them.

No puedo controlar las cosas que me suceden cada día, pero puedo controlar cómo pienso al respecto.

Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light -- every eye looking on finds its own.

If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

Originality is merely an illusion.

Furthermore, to say God's work is good enough is not to say that once we receive our lives we cannot improve them. We are clearly invited to work in the garden. In both Old and New Testaments we are given exhortations to be diligent with the lives we have. But there is a big difference between self-improvement and re-creation. Self-improvement is the humble perspective of good stewards, while re-creation is a desperate effort to surpass our created limitations.

Perception of a state is not the state.

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

The point was that you have to look at the world as it is, not as some elegant theory says it ought to be.

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

History is politics projected into the past.

But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

Well, evil to some is always good to others." —Jane Austen, Emma

opposed to behind closed doors. Their psychology. The way they both believed that as long as they told a lie long enough, to as

It's not until a person's world blows up in front of his very face that he yearns for the return of that subtle boredom and