Quotes about Perspective

O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]

8"Forp My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD. 9"Forq as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14

Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we get to the top that our ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Most people confuse their life situation with their actual life, which is an underlying flow beneath the everyday events.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now. This is a monumental change from the first half of life, so much so that it is almost the litmus test of whether you are in the second half of life at all.

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

In my experience, if you are not radically grateful every day, resentment always takes over.

We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Your concern is not so much to have what you love anymore, but to love what you have—right now.

You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way of thinking.