It all depends on what people you’re talking about helping. That’s the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet – they’re all so incredibly selfish.

People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.

The willingness to reexamine lifelong beliefs because of conflicting data takes enormous courage, and contrasts sharply with recent examples of public discourse in which our political, cultural, and religious leaders have fit data to preconceived...

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a “label” than of being a human being, that’s the...

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his...

I truly believe that the children who are diagnosed with cancer are some of the wisest, sweetest, strongest, and most loving children. They have gained a bigger perspective of the world in such a short...

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

You have to thank God for the seemingly good and the seemingly bad because really, you don’t know the difference [until we get to heaven].

This is a deconstruction, from a feminist perspective.

Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never...

Because that world’s gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can’t make that other one real again. It’s like dinosaurs. We can put them back...

Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can’t overdose.)—Pray; discuss your troubles with God.—List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)—Call your mom.—Visit an animal shelter and hug a...

The nature of God’s plan can be difficult to fathom when you are toiling in some small corner of it, but it is glorious from above, if you allow yourself the perspective.

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way...

It’s so difficult, isn’t it? To see what’s going on when you’re in the absolute middle of something? It’s only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.

Just say it: I’m angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don’t you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole...

When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don’t want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that...

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.

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.