Quotes about Perspective

When you're in your twenties, someone once wrote, you live to please other people. When you're in your thirties, you get tired of trying to please others, so you get miffed with them for making you worry about it. When you're in your forties, you realize nobody was thinking about you anyway.

Somebody once said that the biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn't think he's you. In pain, we get very clear about not being God.

People nowadays take time far more seriously than eternity. — Thomas Kelly

The problem with people, according to Jesus, is not that we are too happy for God's taste, but that we are not happy enough.

Interpretis officium est, non quid ipse velit, sed quid sentiat ille quem interpretatur, exponere," Hieron. Apol. adv. Rufin.;—for when the mind is really affected with the discovery of truth itself, it will be guided and directed in the declaration of it unto others.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered.

Never is a man more ready to accept the Lord than when he faces his own mortality.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don't have it anymore