Quotes About Perspective

You have to believe in gods to see them.

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety or by the handle of faith.

For the believer there is no question for the non-believer there is no answer.

I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that is the yearly income for a family in much of the rest of the world.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Adults are just children who earn money.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

If I believed everything everyone had ever told me about my family I'd be a sight more miserable than I am now

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

I've never heard a song written from a stepmother's point of view, about their family.

We were so poor we had no hot water. But it didn't matter because we had no bathtub to put it in anyway.