Quotes about Perspective

A life without attachment and stress can give you the freedom to see things as they are and call them as you see them.

The best reason someone talks about you is because they're actually talking about themselves.

admit it. When I get a bad review, my feelings are hurt. After all, it would be nice if every critic said a title of mine was a breakthrough, an inspirational, thoughtful book that explains how everything works. But sometimes they don't. Which is about enough to ruin my day.

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Lukewarm people think about life on earth much more often than eternity in heaven.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.