Quotes About Perspective

One can brood too much. Nostalgia can fuzz things up.

The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.

Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they've just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that's just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn't happen to me, I don't want to think it happens to anyone else.

In reality there is no normal. Normal is something people have agreed to invent so we have something to compare ourselves to. Normal should be the least of your worries.

It takes experience to teach you what you can be satisfied with

When we found this nice green swamp, these nice green millions of reeds instead, why, they were so much better than the mud that we thought it was all just beautiful. And it is beautiful in an odd way, but you have to learn how to see it.

When you view yourself through the lens of God's Word, you will better understand God's love for you and the worth you have in His eyes.

The Bible changes your perspective on the people, events, and circumstances of your day.

He encourages us to decide to have a joyful attitude. James' first rule for joyful living in unjoyful circumstances is to "count it all joy.

God's peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.

Looking at your day from a "golden day" perspective helps you prioritize.

When you study God's Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him see the palm trees swaying under a brilliant blue sky.

I can still see the green feathers if I look hard enough. But they've done their best to make you into a sparrow, haven't they?

You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?

She said: "We all spend our twenties and thirties trying so hard to be perfect, because we're so worried about what people will think of us. Then we get into our forties and fifties, and we finally start to be free, because we decide that we don't give a damn what anyone thinks of us. But you won't be completely free until you reach your sixties and seventies, when you finally realize this liberating truth—nobody was ever thinking about you, anyhow.

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.

I said, It seems like you have fond feelings towrd your ex-wife. Are you two still close? Nah, he said casually. She thinks I changed my name to motherfucker.

Not many people know how to be satisfied.