Quotes about Perspective

she] might have been a shell, and his words water rubbing against her ears, as water rubs a shell on the edge of a rock.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. Without that power probably the earth would still be swamp and jungle. The glories of all our wars would be unknown.

That man, she thought, her anger rising in her, never gave; that man took.

That she had grown older? Would he say that, or would she see him thinking when he came back, that she had grown older?

Heavenly Father, you must think us such silly creatures, always worrying about tomorrow and letting today slip by.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.