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.

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.

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the...

You Are What You EatTake food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about the food itself – as opposed to being an often arbitrary response preprogrammed by...

I am looking forward to these two weeks with the squad. It’s not often we get a chance to have our players for an extended training camp prior to a friendly, so from that perspective,...

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.

After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.

Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity.

Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into the sea, winds return whence they came, and every city men build has...

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

…wondering, not for the first time, if there was a kind of dark bliss built into dementia: an immunity from death and abandonment, a way of fixing a point in time so that nothing can...

Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say

Cordelia: I personally don’t think it’s possible to come up with a crazier plan.Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.Cordelia: I stand corrected.Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

It wasn’t the prettiest game to watch, probably, from the fan’s perspective, but defensively we did what we had to do. I was so pleased. Our defense was phenomenal.

I am most right because I realize I am most wrong

Man usually sees what he is looking for; seldom what he is looking at.

Closing your eyes won’t make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head – doesn’t this feed the monster?...

Altering your perspective can provide you the luxury of seeing things for what they are, not what you wish them to be.

Education itself is Marketing–marketing tools and perspectives to people who don’t necessarily realize why they need them, how it will serve them, what they might accomplish with them. And, ensuingly, Marketing itself is Education (with...

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don’t mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we’re entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class...

You can’t change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don’t like the ending, you can make up a new one.

No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.

But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog’s ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

It’s a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out...

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened—by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people...

From my perspective, the pressure is off. This season we came in knowing that next year we’re going to be 1B and it’s going to be a completely different format. We’ve been to state seven...

Everyone’s perception is different; we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see.