Quotes about Perspective

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.

I don't think about being a star or anything, or even changes in life; it is not something that bothers me.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

Fame has become less and less important to me, it's more of a burden than anything else.

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

My failures may be my greatest successes. It is in failure that I have often drawn closer to God, learn to depend more on Him than myself, gained self-knowledge, and seen things in their right perspective.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

If you hang out with a bunch of sad sacks who think the world sucks and there's no possibility, you'll start to believe that. But if you hang out with people who think everything is possible and actually do the impossible on a regular basis, you will believe that, and you will be able to achieve that.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.