Quotes about Perspective

Multi oameni, cand incearca sa justifice de ce au sau nu au o anumita credinta, deseori au multe opinii in loc de motive.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.

You can't know, you can only believe - or not.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.