Perspective Quotes

When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.

~ Shannon L. Alder

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

~ Criss Jami

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, What is important to me now?

~ Shannon L. Alder

You can't know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

~ John Green

Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Life flows as a whole, both inside and out, but you divide life with your mind, both inside and outside.

~ Roshan Sharma

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You can, and you will. If you’re going to carry any belief, carry one that empowers you. Believe in your unlimited potential.

~ Akiroq Brost

We can do so much if we just Believe in our own potential.

~ Akiroq Brost

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

~ Criss Jami

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

~ Criss Jami

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

~ Stella Payton

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

~ Stella Payton

Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

We are not free to love God insofar as we are enslaved to creatures. And we all are. We are addicted to whatever we cannot part with that is less than God, our true good. And that includes ourselves--especially ourselves and our own will. So we must renounce this too, this especially. God's world is not the problem; our attitude is. God does not want us to renounce the unspeakably beautiful world he gave us as creation, as gift, as it really is. He wants us to renounce it as creator, as our god, as it really is not. This wonderful world is our God-given house to live in and to live the love of God in. But God's bride must learn not to love her house as if it were her husband.

~ Peter Kreeft

I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.

~ Jessica Sorensen

Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald.

~ Harold Holzer

Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

~ Paul C. Nagel

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

~ Jeanette Winterson

Words can be arrows that inflict wounds. They can also be bandages that heal.

~ Toni Sorenson

I write in seconds. I don’t stop. I don’t think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it’s genuine. I don’t understand thought-out poetry. It doesn’t seem real to me.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair, but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

~ Charles Dickens

It is nearly impossible to feel anything negative in here. Because you’re really connected, to everything, here… but it’s only meant to be a temporary sanctuary, a place to remember yourself. In time you’ll want your negative thoughts, your emotional baggage back, and you’ll have hopefully bolstered yourself enough with the Sanctum’s reminder of your Source that you can come out with fresh perspective. When you’ve had enough of it, you’ll know, and then come and join us outside.

~ Colleen Chen

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

No, it really isn't, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn't fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize that their daughter died for no other reason than people can't figure out how to be nice to each other. It isn't that hard, just be nice and people might not have to suffer needlessly, but that isn't the world we live in, so young girls die. That isn't fair, Mom. People falling out of love is vicious and it sucks, but there are far worse things you could be going through. I know that sounds harsh but it's very true.

~ Jay Crownover

There comes a time when something changes you... No matter the impact... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life.

~ Solange Nicole

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

~ Ashly Lorenzana

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Your perspective changes when you put God first by praising Him.

~ Andrew Wommack

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern of the whole.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Whenever you can’t balance what you see with what you believe you have conflict.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The way you perceive your Self is what enables, or disables, you.

~ The Truth

It was frightening, this new clarity of vision: but I felt free at last to know darkness as the other side of light, and that both were needed for sight.And with that thought—it was almost as though I felt it in truth—the shackles of my old imprisoned self fell away at last. No more did I long for a warm bed behind safe walls. My heart drank in the beauty and wonder and danger of the world, and I saw for the first time that life was not something to survive, but something—the only thing—to be savoured in all its diversity. Light and dark together, mingled in all things, giving depth and substance where either alone was a pale shadow. I felt from that moment I might begin to find all things new.

~ Elizabeth Kerner

If you want to expand your perspective and learn something new, it will help if you can temporarily suspend your beliefs. Whenever we encounter something, our minds try to define an understanding based on what we already think we know. But sometimes, something new is so radical that to explain it in old terms would serve it a great injustice. If we are able to suspend our beliefs, and open our imagination, we might have the opportunity to travel to a whole new understanding or perspective. I believe that this is why the new and unknown can be so uncomfortable for us. We try so hard to hang on to the comfort of what we know regardless of how well that serves us. Dare to be brave. Dare to dream and imagine. Don't close yourself off from the new. Move forward with positive momentum, never stop learning and growing.

~ Akiroq Brost

The more actively engaged you are in the present moment, the more aware you will become of yourself; your actions and reactions. As you become more aware, you will increase your ability to change what it is you do and how.

~ Akiroq Brost

Realizing and truly accepting that we are constantly evolving, that everything and everyone around us is also constantly evolving helps us to understand things. We have no way of predicting the future. What is right/wrong for us now, may not be right/wrong for us tomorrow because we and everything is constantly changing. We are free to make decisions with the knowledge that there is no exact correctness by which we can make a decision. It’s ok if the decision doesn’t work out, in fact, that will happen. It’s also ok to change our mind. There is no shame in changing our mind. What was right for us yesterday may just not work for us anymore

~ Akiroq Brost

Seek to learn. See to learn.

~ Akiroq Brost

You are what you believe.

~ Akiroq Brost