Quotes about Perspective
People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.
— Tina Turner
A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film, a comedy, or whatever, but hopefully, she will be informed by a gaze that is female.
— Shabana Azmi
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
— Ann Voskamp
Hear the other side.
— St. Augustine
Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)
— St. Augustine
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
— St. Basil
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
— St. Basil
Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.
— Teresa of Avila
The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.
— Sam Storms
Gazing at the grandeur of heavenly glory transforms our value system. In
— Sam Storms
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs.) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.
— Samuel Beckett
What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.
— Samuel Beckett