Quotes about Perspective

If we make such comparisons, we might be tempted not to speak of the suffering from our hearts to the Lord because we would consider it whining, which it certainly is not.

In our attempts to help, we can overinterpret suffering.

To deeply understand fear we must also look at ourselves and the way we interpret our situations. Those scary objects can reveal what we cherish. They point out our insatiable quest for control, our sense of aloneness.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

If human emotions largely result from thinking, then one may appreciably control one's feelings by controlling one's thoughts - or by changing the internalized sentences, or self-talk, with which one largely created the feeling in the first place.

Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views which they take of them.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.