Quotes About Perspective

And we mustn't lose our sense of humor, " Mrs. Which said. "The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top....(as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor)

The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine.

Well, I suggest you sleep on it, " said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.

Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair.

Count your blessings, not your misfortunes, for your blessings will be the light of hope, in the dark of hopelessness.

In football, side netting can sometimes look like a real goal and it can make spectators jubilate for a moment, and then ponder! So is life!

If love comes to you in a way that isn't the norm then at least it came to you

To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

At first we hope too much later on not enough.

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?

Humanity lives in its fiction.

In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I think there is a tendency for people to get rigid and caught up in their beliefs of what is right and wrong, and they lose sight of humanity. Being human has to come first before right or wrong.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.