Quotes about Perspective

While visiting the University of Notre Dame, where I had been a teacher for a few years, I met an older experienced professor who had spent most of his life there. And while we strolled over the beautiful campus, he said with a certain melancholy in his voice, "You know,… my whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.

detach ourselves from making our individual experience the criterion for our approach to others

We have very little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens.

The reward of choosing joy is joy itself.

From God's perspective, one hidden act of repentance, one little gesture of selfless love, one moment of true forgiveness is all that is needed to bring God from his throne to run to his returning son and to fill the heavens with sounds of divine joy.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

If you want to be happy, be!

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.