Quotes About Perspective

Stress never comes directly from your circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.

All human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.

Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.

We have to assume that the people whose dwelling-places, artefacts, lives even, we are dealing with were rational, integrated, sane and sensible human beings. Then we look around at our own contemporaries and wonder how this belief can possibly be sustained.

The first impression is the truth, and all that follows is merely the excuse of memory.

By being published, any author's words cease to be his own, but rather belong to his reader.

but the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist.

What is it like to wear another person's skin?" "I don't have a good answer for that," I said. "It hurts." "Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: "You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

While I'm not claiming that I now feel great love for all people, I can state with some confidence that I hate fewer people than I used to. This may seem like a weak claim to personal growth, but sometimes these things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

To face this fact is to encounter one of the most demanding challenges in thinking about history: explaining how people in the past could have failed to see what seems so clear to us in retrospect. This is an imperative task but also a delicate and exacting one. On one hand, explanation can shade into excuse, on the other hand, passing judgment on the past can be a form of self-congratulation in the present.

Before dismissing such men as 'mediocre, timid, and weak,' one might ask oneself how many of us would welcome such a war, especially without the knowledge of hindsight?

God's will is not an itinerary but an attitude.

Most subjects want to shape your view of them, of course.

If the Sun were reduced to the size of a basketball, Earth would be a small apple seed about 30 meters from the ball.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.

A work of art is...a bridge, however tenuous, between one mind and another.

Dü?manlar?n her biri; "özgürlü?ü savunmakta", "demokrasiyi sürdürmekte" ya da "adaleti desteklemekte" oldu?unu ileri sürerek tart??abilir, kavga edebilir ve hatta sava?abilir. Sorun, "özgürlük", "demokrasi" ya da "adalet" gibi sözcüklerin, farkl? insanlar için farkl? anlamlara gelmesidir; bundan dolay? da kavramlar?n kendileri sorunluymu? gibi görünmeye ba?larlar.

From my limited and immature child's point of view, Heaven was therefore populated almost exclusively by white people who lived in the United States of America, along with the original disciples of Jesus, an uncalculated number of genuine Christians who had lived throughout the ages, and many but not all of those mentioned in Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which I first read at the age of eight when I found it on my parents' book shelf.

One is perhaps too inclined to think only of him alive at some future time when we shall meet him again; but it is really so much more helpful to think of him as just separated from us for the present.

The point lay not in this or that label, but in the fact that this generation were going to think for themselves, take a wider view of the world than their parents had done, and not be frightened by bogey words.

He stopped visiting married friends. Married friends, he decided one evening after returning from a visit, depress me.

Truth is in the eye of the beholder, Doctor, I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing…" "You're not going to tell me." "But you don't need me to tell you, Doctor,., if you'll just notice the details. They're scattered like crumbs…