Quotes About Perspective

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness—you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week ... If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep—you are richer than 75 percent of this world ... So count your blessings and remind everyone else how blessed we all are!

Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life.

The emotions we experience don't reflect our external reality; they reflect our internal reality.

We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.

Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective.

we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

We can't just know what we believe; we need to know why we believe what we believe.

life is just a hand job.

The old bit about only believing half of what you see and none of what you read no longer applies. The American people believe everything they see on the TV and those that do read, believe all of what's in print. `It has to be true otherwise they wouldn't print it?

On the end of WWII in Europe: Few comments matched those of Bennie Smith, Howard K. Smith's wife, who told her husband: "No matter what terrible things happen in the future, we must remember this: we won. We might not have. They might have won. Think of what the world would have been like if they had won. Nothing can ever be as terrible as that.

There are days when everything feels like a metaphor for your having died There are days when nothing does

the 25 percent of Spaniards who are presently without work simply don't (by Milton's presumption) want to work at the prevailing wage and are on vacation.

We're so shit at seeing the Macro, and ultimately it's those macro uncoupling dynamics that matter more than anything else.

facts never disconfirm a good ideology

You will notice that I have not written about the horrors of prison life, or the conditions, hardships, treatment and so forth, because men reading this book who have been to jail will be bored to tears and people who haven't been to jail can bloody well come in here and find out for themselves.

The things we think we know are just stories we have been told. They are not necessarily true.

In the grand scheme of things, his existence was not important to anyone but himself

Thirty-four is not even old!

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

My father-in-law once wrote a best-seller entitled All You Can Do Is All You Can Do—But All You Can Do Is Enough. I love that title. You see, we can't control the rain; we can pull out an umbrella. We can't control a harsh word leveled at us; we can return with a soft answer.

Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.

Of course, from an absurdist perspective, all deaths are a punch line: the good news is, you're born; the bad news is, you die. Life is a death sentence.

it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.

Say what you see and you experience yourself through your style of seeing and saying.