Quotes about Perspective

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: you become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

They are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post, for support rather than for illumination.

In the words of the Scottish proverb, 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

So long as your eyes remain set upon the things of this world, your acts will lead to earthbound results.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another name?

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

Where the grass is greener, the water bill is bigger.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.