Quotes About Perspective

You will probably have what is called a Christian Church here; they will not admit that we are Christians, but they cannot think us further from the plan of salvation as revealed from heaven than we know them to be, so we are even on that ground, as far as it goes.

Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight, As lands and cities, with their glittering spires, To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there? Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

Fundamentally, if the league is going to have a no-tolerance policy for domestic abuse, if we're going to be a global organization that's going to have this as a perspective, we've got to back it up. We can't be backed into it with a video with more coming out. We've got to take an affirmative stance about it.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

My mom closed the book, called my sister and said, "Your brother is a heretic!" You know, and she meant it, and it took a whole series of beautiful situations for her to get across that bridge.

Um, I made 15 copies [of The Shack] at Office Depot. It did everything I ever wanted it to do -- in those 15 copies. All of the rest of this is, I think, you know, is part of God's great sense of humor. And I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.

Travel teaches as much as books.

There are more ways to see than with your eyes, Flora. And now I see much more than I ever did when I had ordinary vision. It was a fair trade.

If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.

It's better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you'll end up paying with your life.

It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write.

L'ho vista questa Gui Hua. Ha un sedere troppo grosso. Ti piacciono le chiappone, Gen Long?" chiese Xu Sanguan. Gen Long si mise a ridere e toccò ad A Fang parlare: "la donna col sedere grosso va bene. Stesa sul letto sembra una barca, è molto stabile.

Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.

Ordinary life is even more horrible than war

A un cuore che tenti di avvicinarsi, il cuore dell'altro sembra lontano

Surely, I thought, we do not deserve even a little happiness. Or perhaps we had acquired the bad habit of regarding even a little happiness as a big favor, which we would have to repay.

When we plot the happiness of another, we unconsciously impute to the other person what is in another form the dream in which our own happiness is fulfilled. Thus by not thinking of our own happiness we make it possible for ourselves to become egotistic.

Beneath the sky, wretched lonliness was no jot better or worse than good fortune and success. To put it another way, wherever you stood, the same starry sky was peering down.