Quotes about Perspective

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

[T]his country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven.

Criminal Minds, Believer: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

No one but an aviator has a right to look down on others.

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.