Quotes about Perspective
Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
— Jonathan Edwards
You westerners are the ones we can't understand. God has given you so much, you have been so blessed…why are so many people in your country so unhappy?
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering is having what you do not want, and wanting what you do not have. However, suffering is minimized when we equalize our desires to fit our circumstances. Subtract our wants, and we will be closer to contentment.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
— Joseph Addison
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.
— Joseph Addison
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).
— Joseph Campbell
T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in your life, find a meaning and bring it into your life, but life won't give you a meaning. Meaning is a concept. It is a notion of an end toward which you are going. The point of Buddhism is This Is It.
— Joseph Campbell
Yes. What you have here is what might be translated into raw individualism, you see, if you didn't realize that the center was also right there facing you in the other person. This is the mythological way of being an individual. You are the central mountain, and the central mountain is everywhere.
— Joseph Campbell
From the standpoint of the Olympians, eon after eon of earthly history rolls by, revealing ever the harmonious form of the total round, so that where men see only change and death, the blessed behold immutable form, world without end. But now the problem is to maintain this cosmic standpoint in the face of an immediate earthly pain or joy.
— Joseph Campbell
What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.
— AW Tozer
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. A second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. A first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
— AA Milne
Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.
— AA Milne