Quotes about Perspective

I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.

Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.

So then, we must not read Lamentations without the rest of the Bible. But equally, we should not read the rest of the Bible without Lamentations (as Christians have habitually tended to do).

The more you look at your problems, the bigger they get.

I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises. . . Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years.

If I'm signing autographs and I see one hundred people in a line I've got to remind myself, "That person is one one-hundredth of my day, but to them I'm their day." You know what I mean? Unless they meet J.Lo later on.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.