Perspective Quotes

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

~ John Kasich

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

~ David Halberstam

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

~ Davis Bunn

I've taped a list to my bathroom mirror. It's my Most Violated List. . . Anger. I gave the finger to an ATM. You see, the ATM charged me a $1.75 fee for withdrawl. A dollar seventy-five? That's bananas. So I flipped off the screen. As Julie tells me, when you start making rude gestures to inanimate objects, it's time to work on your anger issues. Mine is not the shouting, pulsing-vein-in-the forehead rage. Like my dad, I rarely raise my voice. My anger problem is more one of long-lasting resentment. It's a heap of real or perceived slights that eventually build up into a mountain of bitterness. . . get some perspective. . . I ask myself the question God asked Jonah. 'Do you do well to be angry?'. . .The world will not end. . . Mute your petty resentment.

~ A.j. Jacobs

The next time you find yourself getting angry, ask yourself: Is this really something I want to give my time and energy to? Will doing so make any positive impact? If your answer is no, consider redirecting that anger-energy as soon as possible! Find something to do that will feed your soul, fuel your fire, passion and creativity. Find something that will bring something new and positive to this world.

~ Akiroq Brost

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If having problems feels like a problem to you, it may not be the problems themselves, but the way you think about them that is the problem.

~ Steve Goodier

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

~ Thomas H. Cook

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

~ William Henry Hudson

I think that perhaps everyone has a moment that splits their life in two. When you look back on your own time line there's a sharp spike somewhere along the way, some event that changed you, changed your life more than the others. A moment that creates a before and an after. Maybe it's when you meet your love or you figure out your life's passion or you have your first child. Maybe it's something wonderful. Maybe it's something tragic. But when it happens it tints your memories, shifts your perspective on your own life and it suddenly seems as if everyone you've been through falls under the label of pre or post.

~ Taylor Jenkins Reid

An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one’s mind. Even ten square miles of wheat gladdens the hearts of most . . . No, in the plant world, and especially among the flowering plants, fecundity is not an assault on human values. Plants are not our competitors; they are our prey and our nesting materials. We are no more distressed at their proliferation than an owl is at a population explosion among field mice . . . but in the animal world things are different, and human feelings are different . . . Fecundity is anathema only in the animal. Acres and acres of rats has a suitably chilling ring to it that is decidedly lacking if I say, instead, acres and acres of tulips.

~ Annie Dillard

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.

~ Dan Pearce

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart, anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.

~ Barry Eisler

Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.

~ Kathleen Rooney

Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidly admitted, I might have been obsessed with bodies – boobs they are now called. But what seventeen-year-old kid was not? Guilty am I.

~ H.w. Brands

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

~ Shannon L. Alder

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

~ Mark Haddon

There's just as much to be heard in silence as there is in a room filled with words.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

I had treated my temporary earthly problems so emotionally and seriously that they became major energy zappers, brain drains, and heart breakers. I knew I was a Christian living in this world, but things didn’t really sink in until the concept of the purple wedge made me ‘see’ it and put things into perspective.

~ Van Harden

God’s peace and perspective are available to you through His Word.

~ Elizabeth George

When you study God’s Word and incorporate His wisdom and principles into your daily life, your whole perspective will change.

~ Elizabeth George

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

~ Douglas Adams

Could circumstances possibly change who I forever am in You?

~ Mercyme

The journey is where we find perspective.

~ Alison Levine

People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scaled and conquered, providing an added victory as well as a great view of the journey ahead.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A man makes choices,” Tal said.“True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.

~ Raymond E. Feist

There’s always another option.There’s always another one.It’s never only 'this' or 'that,'The moon or else the sun.Don’t sigh and choose the greaterOr lesser of two plights.But look to see the stars beyondFor options vast and bright.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn't mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the idiot taking all the shots in your life because they don't realize the lens is dirty.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that couldn't be seen from shore. Then I climbed the tallest mountain peak to watch the amber sun through the clouds. Finally, I traveled to the darkest part of the valley to see the last glimmering rays of light through the misty fog. It was every perspective I experienced on my journey that left the leaves trodden black, and that has made all the difference.

~ Shannon L. Alder

But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from the cowardly cockroaches to the blind stolid ants they wanted only to be left alone to eat and breed and eat and breed, just like us.

~ William T. Vollmann

Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.

~ Paul Theroux

I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They are unable to live anyway else. When a person finds out that a fact is against them, it's usually because it's the truth. No one tries to step outside of the edge of reason. No one tries to step beyond the edge of the world.

~ Lionel Suggs

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine

~ Robert A. Caro

Our body hears whatever is in our mindsand responds.

~ Akiroq Brost