Quotes about Perspective

Cynicism always comes clothed in "realism". The alternatives to begin with an act of imagination. Can we imagine another way?

I decided that my life was a gift from God, and my happiness was not dependent upon children, a husband, or any of the other things I had once thought were the source of happiness. It's about being able to accept the bitter and sweet parts of life.~Lois Troyer

I wish you would stop being so negative. I'm not being negative; I'm just facing the truth. The truth is you have a lot to learn about how God wants us to live, and unless you allow Him to fill your heart with joy and love, I'm afraid you'll be living less of a life than my crippled granddaughter.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Happiness is something that you are and it comes from the way you think.

Many African Americans, Hispanics, and women read Scripture through Third World eyes, and this presents a deep challenge to First World readers, who all too often expect Scripture to endorse their comfortable, middle-class way of life.

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

Sometimes it takes suffering to reveal to us just how rich we are.