Quotes about Perspective

Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.

It is when we insist most firmly on everyone else being reasonable that we become ourselves, unreasonable.

Your idea of me is fabricated with materials you have borrowed from other people and from yourself. What you think of me depends on what you think of yourself. Perhaps you create your idea of me out of material that you would like to eliminate from your own idea of yourself. Perhaps your idea of me is a reflection of what other people think of you. Or perhaps what you think of me is simply what you think I think of you.

any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.

one's nationality should come to have a meaning in the light of eternity.

Before we can see that created things (especially material) are unreal, we must see clearly that they are real.

So much depends on our idea of God! Yet no idea of Him, however pure and perfect, is adequate to express Him as He really is. Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him. We

It is when we insist most firmly on everyone else being "reasonable" that we become, ourselves, unreasonable.

In humility is the greatest freedom. As soon as you begin to take yourself seriously and imagine that your virtues are important because they are yours, you become the prisoner of your own vanity and even your best works will blind and deceive you. Then, in order to defend yourself, you will begin to see sins and faults everywhere in the actions of other[s].

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.