Quotes About Perspective

It was he who told her of the three inscriptions over the doors of the Milan Cathedral. One, with a carving of roses, says, "All that pleases is but for a moment"; another, with a carving of a cross, says, "All that grieves is but for a moment"; and over the great central door are only the words, "Nothing is important but that which is eternal.

The real question we need to face is exactly what a Christian is supposed to do when terrible things happen. There are two choices, and only two: We can trust God or we can defy Him. We believe that God is God, He's still got the whole world in His hands and knows exactly what He's doing, or we must believe that He is not God and we are at the awful mercy of mere chance.

Nu este nechibzuit cel ce renunta la ceea ce nu poate pastra pentru a castiga ceea ce nu poate pierde.

A great many things determine how people live, and money is not at the top of the list. Choices are always available. What you choose will depend on how you see things: yourself, your work, your right to express taste and desire and personality, your understanding of the love of God as expressed in His creation and order and harmony.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

When you compare losses, someone else's may seem greater or lesser than your own, but all losses are painful. If

loss counts more than another. It is your loss that counts for you. It is your loss that affects you. Your loss is deep and deserves

And death has a cruel way of giving regrets more attention than they deserve. The

However healthy you think you are, remember that vegetarians die too.

Debemos aceptar con humildad que haya millones de cosas que no entendemos todavía, pero esto no quiere decir que sólo por el hecho de no comprenderlas no existan o no sean realidades.

Nor could I have imagined that afterward I would spend the rest of my life explaining that death does not exist.

When we look back in time and study old cultures and ­people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful to man and will probably always be

La muerte no es algo que haya que temer. De hecho, puede ser la experiencia más increíble de la vida. Sólo depende de cómo se vive la vida en el presente. Y lo único que importa es el amor.»

Why should I focus all my time on being productive so that someday I can enjoy my life? I'm enjoying it now.

Al águila le entusiasma sobrevolar el mundo desde las alturas, no a fin de contemplar con desprecio a la gente, sino para animarla a que mire hacia lo alto.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love

Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.

People aren't the same when they've lived in India. It changes them, I've often noticed it.

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

Make time for prayer and reflection; try to understand your value as a man on earth but see, too, your proper place in the scheme of things. It may sound funny to say this, but I have come to see that we are all far more important and less important than we think.

Oh. maybe little kids are trouble, sometimes, but only for a good reason: They are tired. They are hungry. They are afraid. He supposes a great many ills of adults might be cured by a nap or a good meal or a bit of timely reassurance. But adults complicate everything. They are by nature complicators. They learned to make things harder than they need to be and they learned to talk way too much.

Did she ever think of that, that things experienced in ways different from hers were equally valuable? That the way that he chose to love her was, in fact, loving her, that the face of love depended on the person giving it?

There are moments when we think nature happens just for us, and there are other moments when the ridiculousness of that notion is revealed.

How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or what they are on their way to?