Quotes about Perspective

English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself." What kind of voices do you hear? When you face new experiences, does a voice in your head say you're going to fail? If you're hearing negative messages, you need to learn to give yourself positive mental pep talks.

There's only one thing more contagious than a good attitude—and that's a bad attitude.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.

When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.