Quotes about Perspective
Stories change people. History, real history, helps people understand each other, see each other from the inside out.
— Lisa Wingate
They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.
— Lisa Wingate
I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.
— Lisa Wingate
My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.
— Lisa Wingate
The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.
— Lisa Wingate
Maybe grace was all around me, bubbling through, passing under my feet, and I'd never seen it because I'd never tried to see.
— Lisa Wingate
Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.
— Lisa Wingate
Ultimately, it's not so much what life deals you as what you choose to own that matters, a spiritually searching law clerk had once said to
— Lisa Wingate
How wonderful the days when all was well. How necessary, also, that we must release them now. It is fine enough to glance at the past, but one must never focus there overlong. Don't you think?
— Lisa Wingate
Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.
— Lisa Wingate
The secret to a good life isn't in getting what you want; it's in learning to want what you get. I'm learning to want what I've got and not to think about the rest so much.
— Lisa Wingate
Ever'body got story. Ever'body got a reason for what they do. You eat off somebody else's plate, drink a their cup, could be, you'd be the same way.
— Lisa Wingate