Quotes about Perspective
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
— Ann Voskamp
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
— GK Chesterton
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
— CS Lewis
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.
— Soren Kierkegaard
When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.
— Billy Graham
If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling people may be sarcastic but lack an authentic sense of humor.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
— John Calvin
By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.
— Florence Nightingale
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
— Virginia Woolf
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
— George Bernard Shaw