Quotes about Perspective

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us.

The bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.

First — How did I become a Socialist? By reading.

A man must understand evil and be acquainted with sorrow before he can write himself an optimist and expect others to believe that he has reason for the faith that is in him.

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

It's important to have people who are absolutely willing to say you're wrong or who have a totally different perspective than you do on everything. Fresh ideas are hard to come by, and good ones are even harder.