Sometimes you don’t need to change what you’re looking at only get a better view.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

They are fluent Russian speakers. They have a perspective on Russia that the previous generation, Mao and even Deng Xiaoping, did not have. Mao and Deng were much more suspicious of Russia. This generation is...

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can...

I don’t pretend reality is the same for everyone.

They were trying to orchestrate a revolution, which almost by definition generated a sense of collective trauma that defied any semblance of coherence and control. If we wish to rediscover the psychological context of the...

I think it was pretty neutral from a rand perspective but he did a paint pretty optimistic outlook for the rand.

People only see what they want to see

All of the answers you seek can be found in the macrocosmic view of the microcosmic You.

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn’t, and how much, and try not to be scared of the stuff that doesn’t. Put it in perspective.

I guess, but I also worked as a baker, construction worker, and a bunch of other things. Either way I just prefer being known as Jack. I mean Dr. Baker Jack Hammer Jack, would be...

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...

We see people and things not as they are, but as we are.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

The older I get, the more I realize that I am not just the student, but I am my own teacher as well.

One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. It’s also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, don’t feel...

As small as a world as large as alone.

I may not be where I want to be but I’m thankful for not being where I used to be.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the plate and took action to help a crippled population. All credit for the...

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...

As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger...

I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology...

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we’re not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world through the lenses of our eyes like the pilots of people-shaped spacecraft. We...

We have all been in very close touch with our Russian counterparts, … I think it is evident from their perspective that Kostunica won the first round. They have said that.

We were negotiating very hard for our own position, and from our perspective there was a guarantee of traffic, so that wasn’t too much of a concern,

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

The president, in our perspective, is in uncharted territory because he has a really long tenure left and yet he has very low job performance ratings in just his sixth year. Whether he is able...

You are lucky to feel sadness.

It’s amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual’s state of mind. The mad...

No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception.

You begin to suspect, as you gaze through this you-shaped hole of insight and fire, that though it is the most important thing you own — never deny that for an instant — it has...

We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

Our side has agents. Their side has spies.

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there’s not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

No matter what you seek to achieve, perspective makes a difference. All. Perspective comes from reflecting.

He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might...

The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you’re going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you’re meant to take.