Quotes About Perspective

Why let grief for what "is not" blind you to what "still is and must always be

Reality is not what your eyes show your mind, but what your mind creates for your eyes to see.

Why see life with only your eyes, when your heart has double-secret, interdimensional, X-ray vision?

Heaven is everywhere, always, at once. Hell is not knowing it.

Wahrnehmung ist unsere Sicht auf die Welt und uns durch die Brille unserer Ãœberzeugungen.

Of course there is a God, just not like the one taught by the blind who lead the blind.

Life, incidentally, is not 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it! It's 100 percent what you make it.

There are no bad dogs. Every cat gets more lives.

Don't we already intuitively accept that every dark cloud has a silver lining? And that when you see no such lining, perhaps it's because you have more to learn, not because it isn't there?

It's always best to assume that everyone either knows the truth or will know the truth, because either they do or they will.

Never did I wake up on a morning feeling like, I made it! I'm living my dreams! Yet still, only in hindsight, I had and I was.

Do you realize that everyone, absolutely everyone on this planet—grumpy office workers, arguing children, fickle spouses, the "narrow-minded," the extremists—all think they're doing their very best? So how do you get through to someone who thinks they're doing their very best? How would someone get through to you?

It's one kind of victory to slay a beast, move a mountain, and cross a chasm, but it's another kind altogether to realize that the beast, the mountain, and the chasm were of your own design!

Suddenly cancer can be seen in a different light—as an adventure into healing one's body, mind, and spirit.

choreography was divinely managed. Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift.

life is not fair—the cards are incredibly stacked in your favor.

our infatuation with the spectacular can blind us to the ways in which God moves in and through the ordinary and the common.

Welcome, child," he said. "Aslan," said Lucy, "you're bigger." "That is because you are older, little one," answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.

How does God grow people? Often by reminding them how big he is and how small we are. By introducing mystery and tension and difficulty into life so that we might be forced to move beyond trusting our faith and religious systems to actually trusting him.

I thought for so long that time was like a line, that our moments were laid out like dominoes, and that they fell, one into another and on it went, just days tipping, one into the next, in a long line between the beginning...and the end. But I was wrong. It's not like that at all. Our moments fall around us like rain. Or snow. Or confetti. (Nell Crain, The Haunting of Hill House)

You carry about in your own selfish world completely oblivious to the things that really upset me and then wonder what it is you've done wrong.

It's funny how life can be sometimes, just when you think you know how everything is, it sneaks out a surprise that really tears the rug right out from beneath your feet.

If you haven't got your life sorted at forty, no one, not even your own mum, is going to hand you a medal and say well done.

youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is