Quotes about Perspective

You become what you think about most of the time.

You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Right now I'm having so much trouble with D.L. Moody that I don't have time to find fault with the other fellow.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

This morning, when I was sitting in front of the window and taking a long, deep look outside at God and nature, I was happy, just plain happy. Peter, as long as people feel that kind of happiness within themselves, the joy of nature, health and much more besides, they'll always be able to recapture that happiness. Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.

Things were different when I was growing up.