Quotes about Perspective
Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
— Richard Paul Evans
I admit that living in Nigeria sounds romantic, but Africa isn't America by a long shot. It's a different world and a different place in time...
— Esther Rolle
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
— Frank Herbert
He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.
— GK Chesterton
As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.
— Greg Laurie
As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.
— Henry Reed
If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.
— Joyce Meyer
We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.
— Zig Ziglar
A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
— Marcus Aurelius
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
I don't reckon men are supposed to think, Sally said philosophically, as the pile of hemp rope grew at her feet. That's why God gave 'em big muscles.
— Mary Connealy