Quotes about Perspective

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

Every experience that we have is unique to us because at some deep level we make an interpretation of it.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

Our spiritual manhood in heaven will discard many things which we now count precious, as a full-grown man discards the treasures of his childhood.

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.

There is nothing known as Perfect. Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

I don't pretend to understand the universe — it's much bigger than I am.