Quotes about Perspective
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.
— John Oliver
We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.
— George W. Bush
You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
— Steve Jobs
I hope I never git so land hungry and money crazy thet I have no time fer God, family, or friends.
— Janette Oke
She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.
— Janette Oke
That world may be real for them, but it doesn't mean you have to live in it.
— Jason Fried
Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.
— Michelangelo
Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youÂ've made too much of it, to remember it doesnÂ't define you.
— Rachel Held Evans
Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.
— Anne Lamott
I have spoken to people in intelligence. And they are big believers in, as an example, waterboarding. Because they say it does work. It does work.
— Donald Trump