Quotes about Perspective

When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator - the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it.

It's a privilege to serve in Washington, D.C., but I never lose sight of what the Lord has called me to do in my life. And that is to be, first a husband, and then a father, and succeed there from His perspective, and He'll take care of everything else.

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.

Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Life is not yours to take.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.