Quotes about Perspective

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

A golden spoon is useless when the soup bowl is empty.

Beautiful thoughts precede a beautiful life.

Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, "Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?" To which the man responded, "That's your worry.