Quotes About Perspective

Yet for the evangelical left, with humor as with everything else, if it's not for everyone then it's not for anyone.

Because the evangelical left—like most human beings—is highly lacking in empathy and unable to perceive other points of view, its members tend to equate their perspective with universally perceived truth.

Great minds," Eleanor Roosevelt said, "discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." How big is your mind?

Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: It's all small stuff.

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

we make the mistake of viewing history through modern eyes. Instead, it must be evaluated with an open mind. We must take into account the fears and superstitions of the times, for they are critical to understanding the people and their motivations.

All I ever wanted...couldn t hold a candle to what I ve been given.

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

If you say you can or you can't you are right either way." ? Henry Ford Quote

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining." ? Guy Finley Quote

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking." ? Robert H Schuller Quote

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." ? Mark Twain Quote

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

I tell you, my friends,' he said one day. 'I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It's the others that are mad, but they don't know it. They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it's me they call mad!

People are basically screwed-up and often the best you can do for them is listen, hear the worst and then tell it's not so bad.

Only very young people believe that change is always for the better.

It doesn't have to mean anything to you to mean something to me.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

while people and circumstances certainly matter, what's even more important is what we think about those people and circumstances.

Yet when our thinking quietens down, the upset tends to disappear. If we look closely, we can see the idea that another person can make us feel a certain way is as illusory as the 'white triangle' we hallucinate when we look at the image above. And that is why the physicist David Bohm said, 'Thought creates our world and then says, "I didn't do it.

We count our miseries carefully and accept our blessings without much thought." Masters

to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced by it.

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.