Quotes about Perspective
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
— Philip Yancey
Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.
— Phillips Brooks
What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.
— Oprah Winfrey
One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.
— Oprah Winfrey
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
— Oscar Wilde
If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.
— Oswald Chambers
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest things in life are not things.
— Rick Warren
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.
— Rick Warren
God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.
— Rick Warren
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.
— Rob Bell
A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
— Robert Louis Stevenson