Quotes about Perspective

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

I maintain that people—truly born-again, genuinely Christian people—often do not pray simply because they do not feel like it. And the reason they don't feel like praying is that when they do pray, they tend to say the same old things about the same old things.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

Happiness is dependent on our circumstances; Joy is dependent on our relationship.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

Some are sad. And some are glad. And some are very, very bad. Why are they Sad and glad and bad? I do not know. Go ask your dad.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

Don't magnify your problems, magnify your God...he's got you covered.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.