Quotes about Perspective
Often we judge ourselves by our intentions and everyone else by their actions. It is possible to intend one thing while communicating something totally different. Sometimes our true motives are cleverly hidden even from us.
— John Bevere
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
— John Calvin
When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
— John Calvin
They who take it amiss that the world was not sooner created, may as well expostulate with God for not having made innumerable worlds.
— John Calvin
As a consequence, we must infer that man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
— John Calvin
We see how mankind, without well thinking what they are doing, pursue, with impetuous and ardent affections, the transitory things of this world; but, in thus catching at the empty shadow of a happy life, they lose true happiness itself.
— John Calvin
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
— John Calvin
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
— John Calvin
Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also.
— John Calvin
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
— Deepak Chopra
Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
— Helen Keller
The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.
— Zig Ziglar