Quotes about Perspective
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
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
— Khalil Gibran
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
— Khalil Gibran