Quotes About Perspective

most people don't want truth. They want confirmation.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Life is a house of cards, balanced on a tetter-totter, precariously perched on a roller coaster. The only thing that should surprise us about our surprises is that we are surprised by them. Beth Cardall's Diary

Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James

There are none so impoverished as those who deny the blessings of their lives.

remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be—a period or an exclamation point.

We can bemoan what we have lost, or we can be grateful to have been blessed with something to mourn.

People can become so blinded by their own perceived victimhood that they make victims of everyone around them.

suppose we as children are selfish by nature, judging our parents in the context not of their worlds and challenges but of our worlds and how they meet our needs. Even as we mature we rarely think of them as having been young like us.

There's no problem so big that whining won't make it worse.

The things that are the most necessary, the most critical to us, are the things we take most for granted. Air. Water. Love. If you have someone to love, you are lucky. If they love you back, you're blessed. And if you waste the time you have to love them, you're a fool.

Before you judge me too harshly, consider your own deepest fears - real or imagined. Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Wasted dreams, I suppose." "I don't think there's such a thing," Justin said. "Dreams have value

When you're struggling with lack, it's easy to become obsessed with all you don't have and forget what you do. It was nice to be reminded of all I had to be grateful for.

It's a shame people don't have the advantage of knowing when their time's up..They would stop trading time for trinkets –

the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

I don't get that, I mean, what's power? Let's say he suddenly becomes king of the world. What is he going to do with it that he can't do now? Is his food going to taste better? Is the weather going to be nicer? Will love feel better? I just don't understand that mentality.

The success is more determined by imagination then circumstance

college education does not make one wise; it just fills your head with others' voices.

Maybe things always look different when we leave them, like a lover. Or a battleground. (Sometimes those are one and the same.)

The people in our lives are like cards in a deck. At different times we draw, hold, and discard, but, in the end, we don't really know the cards' value until life calls our hand.

Vamos a cortar ese güero.

If I thought my previous employer ran a sweatshop, it was an afternoon tea party compared to being self-employed.