Perspective Quotes - Page 16

• The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Dark, Light, Joy

  6 Copy quote

• Don't take yourself so personally.

  This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

  Ram Dass

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.217, Harmony

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.

  Marina Keegan

  Self, Perfect, High Standards

  Marina Keegan (2014). “The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.

  Tony Bennett

  Moving, Past, Who I Am

  Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, p.1889, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.

  Simone Weil

  Errors, Sometimes, Contradiction

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.164, Routledge

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Liabilities are just assets in hiding.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Hiding, Assets, Liability

  8 Copy quote

• People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

  Oliver Sacks

  Our World, People, Interesting

  144 Copy quote

• At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

  Tom Petty

  The End Of The Day, Records, Ends

  10 Copy quote

• The biggest surprise on the soulful journey to authenticity, whether as a philosophy or a spiritual path, is that the path is a spiral. We go up, but we go in circles. Eash time around, the view gets a little bit wider.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Journey

  15 Copy quote

• I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

  Studs Terkel

  Labels, Littles, Conservative

  14 Copy quote

• When you find yourself ready to complain about what you don't have, stop for a moment to consider what incredible things you do have. And resolve to make the most of it all.

  Ralph Marston

  Finding Yourself, Complaining, Incredibles

  18 Copy quote

• Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Depressing, Thinking, Needs

  "What is Your Relevance to the Cosmos?". bigthink.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Understanding, Looks

  7 Copy quote

• Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

  John Hurt

  Each Day, Progression, New Perspective

  "John Hurt: 'I'd be a rubbish spy'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

  Rick Steves

  Way, Bulgarians, Belgians

  6 Copy quote

• Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I've had my share of injuries throughout my career. It's humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I've been hurt, I've learned from that injury and come back even more humble.

  Troy Polamalu

  Hurt, Humble, Careers

  19 Copy quote

• The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Justice, Needs

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.35, Orbis Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a bad day. That is lack of perspective.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Bad Day

  10 Copy quote

• So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Thinking, Years, Decision

  6 Copy quote

• The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth

  T. D. Jakes

  Believe, Critics, Prisoner

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2012

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatever else the true preaching of the word would need to include, it at least would have to be a word that speaks from the perspective of those who have been crushed and marginalized in our society. It would need to be a word of solidarity, healing and love in situations of brokenness and despair and a disturbing and troubling word of justice to those who wish to protect their privilege by exclusion.

  Letty M. Russell

  Healing, Justice, Wish

  14 Copy quote

• Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

  George Clinton

  Destiny, Perception, News

  48 Copy quote

• It is good to look to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the future.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Appreciation, Past, Looks

  11 Copy quote

• Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Profound

  19 Copy quote

• Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Creativity, Reality

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.133, Vintage

  8 Copy quote

  Show source