Quotes about Perspective
One person's disaster is another person's talking point.
— Henry Rollins
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
— Richard Nixon
You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
— Richard Paul Evans
I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.
— Richard Paul Evans
People talk of life's storms as if they are universal experiences. But they're not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.
— Richard Paul Evans
Leah taught me that the greatest secret of life is that we find exactly what we're looking for. In spite of what happens to us, ultimately we decide whether our lives are good or bad, ugly or beautiful.
— Richard Paul Evans
Life is not yours to take.
— Richard Paul Evans
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
— Richard Paul Evans
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.
— Richard Paul Evans
Sometimes life is like that...Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
— Richard Paul Evans
It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.
— Richard Paul Evans
We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary
— Richard Paul Evans