Quotes about Perspective

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

Research shows that Christians are theologically losing the next generation. More than 90 percent of born-again kids today are rejecting the absolute truth their parents embrace. Respected apologist Josh McDowell explains it this way: "You can be the greatest explainer of truth. But if the very heart of your son or daughter does not believe 'my daddy loves me,' they will walk away from your truth."9

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.