Quotes About Perspective

the way to defeat the dangerous potential of complaint is not by silence but by praise. The more you commit yourself to counting your blessings, the more you will have eyes to see specific blessings in your life.

We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

Here it is. When the enemy somehow tricks you into squeezing the size of your life to the size of your personal dreams, wants, and needs, he has got you right where he wants you.

We were meant to see more than our physical eyes can see,

The things you say to you about yourself, about God, and about life are very, very important because they are formative of the way you act and react to the things that God places in your life

You're not aware of it, but your envy of others and the pain it produces lock you into a view of life that has a disastrous past and a painful present but is functionally without a future. It feels as if what is will always be.

It's hard to grasp, but try; there will be a day when you will look back at this huge and horrible thing, and it will look to you like a little thing. As Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 4:16–17, "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

You see, you and I only ever really understand the painful trials of this moment when we look at them through the lens of eternity.

Our agenda, our definition of what a good God should give us, is a life that is comfortable, pleasurable, and predictable; one in which there's lots of human affirmation and an absence of suffering. But consider God's agenda,

Prayer calls me to abandon the present as my only lens on life and commit to look at life from the perspective of reality.

The DNA of joy is thankfulness. Have you noticed that entitled, complaining people don't happen to be very joyful?

Ik of hij, vanop een afstand ben ik hij, teruglopend word ik ik.

Is that a knife in his hand or an ice cream cone? You'll never know until you taste it.

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

We often think about small decisions more than we need to and about big decisions much less than is optimal for our happiness, such as spending days looking at what colors to paint the walls but only a couple of hours visiting the house we buy.

My research and my experiences tell me that life is less about trading off happiness now for happiness later (and vice versa) and more about trading off pleasure and purpose at different rates at different times.

Projection bias is what behavioral scientists call the scenario when we mistakenly use our current feelings to project how we will feel in the future.

cognitive dissonance.

Third, they reflect a different perspective on the role of computation, in which computation is integrated much more directly with the artifacts themselves. In the other examples, while they have aimed to distribute computation throughout the environment, there has always been a distinct "seam" between the computational and the physical worlds at the points where they meet.

The one thing that does not change is that, at any and every time, it appears that there have been great changes

Emotions change how we see the world and how we interpret the actions of others. We do not seek to challenge why we are feeling a particular emotion; instead, we seek to confirm it.

Misinterpreting is not the only route by which someone may believe his or her false account is true.

My truth" becomes opposed to, or destructive of, "your truth." To return to the image I already used: when we take the tropical bird of religious language and put it in a cage, it becomes a bird of prey.

And this power in their teaching had to do, first of all, with the content of what they taught – that is, with the way "what they said" made clear "what really is.