Quotes About Perspective

Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants" God always answers with what we need.

Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.

Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.

If God does not give you something you ask for wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to the situation that has value. All the meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation.

Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.

Looking and seeing are two different things. What matters is the relationship with the subject.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.