Quotes About Perspective

Love is able to see past the clutter of a disorganized life.

Anger looks down from the judge's perch; wisdom comes down from those heights and looks up from below. Humility captures it.

But the point is that we live in a culture that idolizes happiness, and if we idolize happiness, it will always elude us.

In our attempts to help, we can overinterpret suffering

To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our sense of aloneness.

Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.

Each death frames previous deaths in a different light, and even deaths to come. During the time my mother was sick, I found myself crying uncontrollably over the deaths of people I barely knew.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live," the novelist and essayist Joan Didion famously wrote. We also tell ourselves stories in order not to die.

The three criteria of reptilian functioning that leaders of any family or institution can always rely on to judge madness (of others or their own) are ??interfering in the relationships of others; ??unceasingly trying to convert others to their own point of view; and ??being unable to relate to people who do not agree with them.

The second attribute of imaginatively gridlocked relationship systems is a continual search for new answers to old questions rather than an effort to reframe the questions themselves. In the search for the solution to any problem, questions are always more important than answers because the way one frames the question, or the problem, already predetermines the range of answers one can conceive in response. The critical difference between

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind

only as long as we can laugh at ourselves are we nobody else

But people designed and built the bridge." "Under God's will. Don't you understand? It's nothing you can argue with, Tanner. Give up now.

The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Life is great if properly viewed in any aspect; it is mainly great when viewed in connection with the world to come.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

Reality i merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.