Quotes about Perspective
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because theyre not on your road doesnt mean theyve gotten lost.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.
- Henry Ford
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Dont complain about the snow on your neighbors roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
- Confucius
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- Frank Sinatra
We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.
- Mark Batterson
Never underestimate the power of one well-timed compliment. It has the power to change a person's entire perspective on life. It has the potential to change a person's plotline for eternity. The right word at the right time can be the catalyst for someone else's miracle.
- Mark Batterson
Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn't give you what you asked for?
- Mark Batterson
We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are...if someone has a critical eye, they will always find something to be critical about. And if they have a grateful eye, they will find something to celebrate even in the worst of circumstances...Having a "good eye" in life changes how you see yourself and everything around you... your focus determines your reality.
- Mark Batterson
the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep... By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...
- Mark Batterson
Our normal is so subnormal that normal seems radical. To the first-century disciples, normal and radical were synonyms. We've turned them into antonyms.
- Mark Batterson