Quotes about Perspective
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Anybody doing something brings something to it. It's not for me to say if it's "growth". Just by the nature of everyone has a different take on the material. Some people would.
— John Malkovich
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 their proper figures.
— Joseph Addison
Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
— Barack Obama
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
— Marianne Williamson
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
— Helen Keller
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?
— Tony Campolo
The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
— Oswald Chambers
if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
— John Maxwell
God's peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.
— Elizabeth George
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
— Epictetus