The vision one holds of one’s life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

The architects tell us that nothing is great or small save by position.

No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

Although I may not like the different streets and paths life has taken me through, I have come to appreciate them afterwards.

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.

Success is never a place but a perspective.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word” trouble’ loses much of its meaning.

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

I’d never had a mind for math. … It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn’t a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story.

When you’re finally up at the moon looking back on earth,all those differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend, and you’re going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can’t we live together like decent people?

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

…I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.

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...

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country’s table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin’s-egg-blue...

The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to...

They were the good old days. Don’t give up hope in the bad newdays, which will become then good old days. We appreciate Kennedy because he was killed; Martin Luther King was a great man. If you’d meet Naropa or Tilopa on the spot you’d be pissed off. History is very deceptive, reality is more...

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.

We begin to learn wisely when we’re willing to see world from other people’s perspective.

After 25 the only thing you’ll be precocious at is death.

…what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history…

Oh, why does compassion weaken us?’It doesn’t, really … Somewhere where it all balances out – don’t the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live? – if we could go there, you could see it doesn’t. It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here,...

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they’ve got the time-span all wrong. From stone’s point of view the universe is...

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.

The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way to shift that perspective is through gratitude, by acknowledging and appreciating the positives.

We often lose ourselves to where we think we should be, rather than celebrate where we already are.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Think outside the box? Indeed. But to add balance to that, one should not in the process forget what the inside of the box looks like as well. Those who are best at thinking outside the box do it not to puff themselves up, but to see how small they really are. As a contented...

Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer’s model of the world.

J.R.R. Tolkien tells a story of a man who was better at painting leaves than trees. In fact, the leaves he painted were painstaking and exquisite. He continued to feel a pull to make his talent part of something bigger, but the time he would devote to a full masterpiece he selflessly gave to neighbors...

All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

Historical revisionists find what they set out to find.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention...

[…] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so now they seemed as petty and insignificant in comparison with the brilliant sunshine in which the future was bathed. He went on with his work but now he felt that the...

Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.

Every time I’ve done something that doesn’t feel right, it’s ended up not being right.

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

The definition of ‘Employment’ by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same.

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...

Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so–it’s an innate urge with them, something that they do as a matter of course, without even thinking about the psychological benefits of being alone. These people are very fortunate, for they help themselves in a very important way on a regular...

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

When someone says you can’t, look at where they are sitting. Perhaps they meant they can’t.