Quotes about Perspective

She thought of herself, "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!

generally happens when one eats cake; but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

So here's a question for you. How old did you say you were?' Alice made a short calculation, and said 'Seven years and six months.' 'Wrong!' Humpty Dumpty exclaimed triumphantly. 'You never said a word like it!' 'I though you meant How old ARE you?' Alice explained. 'If I'd meant that, I'd have said it,' said Humpty Dumpty. Alice didn't want

All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

How many parents have lost the hearts of their children because they forgot why they had them? It was never to control them but to provide an environment in which they would flourish. How many couples have lost their marriages because they forgot why they were together? They fight against each other rather than for their love. Do we grasp and wrestle with others for their roles because we lose sight of our own?

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.

The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.