Quotes about Perspective

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

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

Lou Kitchenmaster, a retired teacher from Michigan, wrote an editorial in 2012 that puts the progressive position in perfect perspective: None of us would expect our major auto makers to build a high-quality product given damaged or defective materials; however, too many unfairly expect our public schools to accomplish such, regardless of the inherent condition of the "product" they receive. So he considers poor kids to be "damaged or defective materials.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.