Quotes About Perspective

I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt

And no, the hit records of your generation are not better than today's. As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.

So often we fail to acknowledge what we have because we're so concerned about what we want.

Have something to believe in; have a reason to believe in it, but stay open-minded.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.

How much more pleasant this world would be if we magnified our blessings the way we magnify our disappointments.

I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

when we are out of sympathy with the young, our work in this world is over.

Not every clocktick needs a martyr.

So, what you're basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

As a matter of fact, Ona spent more credits on the window shades alone than you will make in your entire lifetime and that's if you live to be 185." "And that's meant to make me feel better?" I said. "No, that is meant to inform you. I am your computer not your nanny.

W turned on his heel and began walking toward the door at the far wall. And by walking I mean, of course, not moving at all, at least not to the naked eye, because his strides could only be measured in micrometers. His creaky legs made barely the tiniest of forward steps, so he'd taken four strides before I noticed any lateral movement at all. "I'll be right back." "Geologically speaking, of course," HARV said.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

trust that you now perceive the same act may wear as many different hues of right or wrong as the rainbow, according to the atmosphere in which it is done.

I have missed the point in thinking of my own feelings.

Die anderen Kaninchen hüpften herum und schrien Hurra und umarmten sich. He Duda, du bist ein Held!, riefen sie. Wie komisch, überlegte He Duda. Ich dachte, ich wäre ein Kaninchen.

Can you be happy when you are unhappy?

Three days in Prince Charming's company and Agatha softened into the woman she'd been in Assisi. More smiles. Fewer frowns. Not so quick to criticize. She paused in her opinions to consider how they'd strike James. She paused in her eating to cast admiring glances his way. And now there she sat with a rare look of contentment on her face, her smile beaming up at James in the pulpit. Never in his life had Father Finn witnessed so clearly the transforming power of love.

You could go along for years thinking you knew a person's story and then come upon a chapter that knocked your socks off.