Quotes about Perspective

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself. Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

Why can't you be a fatalist about it the way I am? If I'm destined to unload these lighters at a profit and pick up some Egyptian cotton cheap from Milo, then that's what I'm going to do. And if you're destined to be killed over Bologna, then you're going to be killed, so you might just as well go out and die like a man. I hate to say this, Yossarian, but you're turning into a chronic complainer

I try not to think of that," Major Danby admitted frankly. "I try to concentrate on only the big result and to forget that they are succeeding, too. I try to pretend that they are not significant." "That's my trouble, you know," Yossarian mused sympathetically, folding his arms. "Between me and every ideal I always find Scheisskopfs, Peckems, Korns and Cathcarts. And that sort of changes the ideal.

Only when people genuinely disagree does tolerance become necessary. Claiming that someone is wrong for holding a different viewpoint, then, isn't itself intolerant; the attitude that accompanies the claim may, however, be intolerant.

Ng??i ta s? ch?t vì nh?ng gì h? cho là chân lý m?c dù th?t ra nó có th? sai l?m. NhÆ°ng h? không bao gi? ch?u ch?t vì nh?ng gì h? bi?t là gi? d?i.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!

We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.

You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

Enjoyment of life is not based on enjoyable circumstances. It is an attitude of the heart, a decision to enjoy everything because everything - even little, seemingly insignificant things - have a part in the overall big picture of life.