And here’s the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty...

The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found...

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.

To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.

The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life – looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the...

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one’s own.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

I love objectivity when mine.

It’s not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

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...

Perhaps I am an insensitive rich woman. That doesn’t change the fact that you can be downright mean and offensive, Kaladin Stormblessed.

Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.

The scene [Bruegel’s ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus’] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the left-hand corner is a tiny ocean the size of a palm,...

Why are we here?” Plastic… asshole.

What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose- and that purpose is to benefit you.

People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces...

By giving us more work, of course.

It is China’s view that Sino-U.S. relations should be dealt with from a strategic and long-term perspective, and the differences between the two countries handled in a proper way.

It’s hard to say you’re not happy at 26-1. It’s incredible when you put this in proper perspective what these guys have done.

Most attribute the domain of night to evil because they can’t see. People fear the shadows of the night because shadows represent the unknown, and the unknown is frightening. They assume evil lurks behind every...

Haven’t you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares of himself...

Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they’re exacerbated and brought to a crisis by his experiences in Narnia. When you go to Narnia, your...

From Willie Brown’s perspective, that was the honorable thing to do, and Arnold thanked him for it. There was no quid pro quo. There was nothing strange.

…you’ve lost perspective? Well, get it back – God alone has the third person point of view in this life …

One must always forgive another’s passion.

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it’s really a ‘how to’ for achieving success. You have to build either of them one brick at a time.

The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside...

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down...

You start to really lose perspective on the movie when the critical response is as weirdly, regressively unanimous as it is.

It’s a true dead-center perspective.

GON. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!ANT. The ground indeed is tawny.SEB. With an eye of green in ‘t.ANT. He misses not much.SEB. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.

Silverfish looked down.”Oh. Are you a dwarf?”Cuddy gave him a blank stare.”Are you a giant?” He said.”Me? Of course not!””Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

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...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

The man who’ll lay the last stone here isn’t even born yet.

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...

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits...

There are no facts, only interpretations.

As of this writing, I am twenty-five years old. I have been alive for 307 months. Nine of those months were pretty terrible. But 298 of those months have been very good. I have been...