Quotes about Perspective

I am sure the grapes are sour.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

Our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.

The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.

Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.

There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.

There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said "Let us pray," and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible.