[…] nobody anywhere seemed to be willing to ponder for a moment the possibility that a human being who refused to participate, who refused to speak or listen, who failed to ‘interact with his peer...

And I understand now, maybe not completely, but more, that in times of overwhelming joy, immobile sadness, hysterical laughter, absolute fear, and sometimes just perfect quiet there is Life. Real Life. And it really is...

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

All too often I try to skate away from the things I’m afraid of and things I don’t like and am unwilling to accept. I’m selfish and difficult to handle. I give my men cause...

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very...

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s decision to get engaged while in prison as his “positive statement that life will go on,” his affirmation of the power of love.

From our perspective, all savings is good, and I’m loathe to criticize it until we see detailed plans. But the main question it raises is to what extent does this encourage or discourage long-term savings?

Mental illness turns people inwards. That’s what I reckon. It keeps us forever trapped by the pain of our own minds[…]

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see...

It’s not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine.”-Cynthia”Doesn’t make yours any more fun to bear.”-Liza”No. But it does help with the self-pity.”- Cynthia

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that’s handed down to us.

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.

Just like salt makes sweet taste sweeter, trials make happy feel happier.

Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for themselves? If no one thought differently, then where would our innovations come from?...

The philosopher often appears ridiculous in the practical affairs of life, because he or she has stepped out of the rush of time.

The problem isn’t a shortage of opportunities; it’s a lack of perspective.

From an outsider’s perspective I can understand it seems odd to open a new facility while another one is closing. But Red Rock is designed for a state contract.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has...

The best things in life aren’t things.

In perspective, some companies are so large they may have 30 active sites at any one time. It’s a lot harder to control a number of different sites, but they know what they need to...

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

I don’t know that thin and pretty is what Nat is supposed to be, though. Does that make any sense?”If she’d been holding on to any illusions about how much she liked Vince Grasso-not lusted...

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generalities...

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, ‘Wake up! Love! Pray!

Fear is and has always been dead. It’s how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you...

Life is too important to take seriously.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

History looks queer when you’re standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it’s being made.

…and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn’t properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves…

Once the blinders are off, it’s rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Any coward can instill fear. It’s easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that’s power.

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person...

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....

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political “physics” with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium...

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Reality is, Hope and Despair lie in the same places. And they’re just a matter of perspective.What changed my perspective, was her.

The world you see, nature’s greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and...

Letting go is to love yourself enough to look at the past with a different perspective. It is to accept that you can’t change the past, but that you can change whether your perspective poisons...

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

The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers usthat we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective.

see” clearly the worth of the other, even while they grow weary from their wounds is the only kind of beauty that matters. For if there wasn’t two worthy opponents there would be no war...

If ants had a language they would, no doubt, call their anthill an artifact and describe the brick wall in its neighborhood as a natural object. Nature in fact would be for them all that...

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

There are moments in life, and they happen so infrequently that they tend to really stand out, when life hands you the gift of perspective. Sometimes, we forget to show our appreciation. Sometimes, we get...