Quotes about Perspective

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.

The author urges taking the pulse of the church outside our own neighborhood. More church attending Presbyterians in Ghana than Scotland, and while Western pastors beg to fill seats, some African pastors are asking people only to attend every second or third week to give room for others in packed churches.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.