Perspective Quotes - Page 7

The author observes of the Inklings, "they make a perfect compass rose of faith: talking the Catholic, Lewis the "mere Christian," Williams the Anglican, Barfield the esotericist.
Philip Zaleski
Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.
Philip Zaleski
Surely, if there could be regrets in heaven, the saints might mourn that they did not live longer here to do more good.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Lewis was studying literary history with the present and future in mind.
Philip Zaleski
Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.
Philip Zaleski
Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.
Philip Zaleski
The net that catches me when I confront traumatic events is that 10,000 years from now, they will be a reason for rejoicing.
Matt Chandler
Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.
Matt Chandler
John F. Kennedy "is, in reality, a deeply serious man, reflective in his mental habits, historically minded, and given to seeing men and nations and events in the sobering context that history provides.As a human being, he is often humorous, easily bored by total routine but open to all fresh experiences, careless of the superficialities of life, warmly loyal to his friends, and oddly detached about himself. His most curious trait, in fact, is his way of discussing his most vital affairs with the dry humor and cool analytical remoteness that most people reserve for the affairs of others. – Joseph Alsop
David Pietrusza
Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
Alister E. McGrath
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
Erik Larson
When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
Frank Herbert
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
Frank Herbert
With all foreign travel, you learn as much about where you're from as what you're visiting.
Jonathan Haidt
There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.
George F. Will
All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.
John Howard Griffin
Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.
Jordan Ellenberg
The aesthetic is an individual rather than a societal concern.
Harold Bloom
When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.
Harold Bloom
He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an observant person) nor the inner vision--concentration, the focusing of the mind on one object. He has a purposefully limited vision. He sees only what blends and harmonises with the bent of his mind.
Agatha Christie
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options.
David Brooks
People treat the present moment as if it is just a stopping point on the way to some great goal that will happen in the future, and then they are surprised that the long day closes; they look back on their life and see that the things they let go by so unregarded, the small pleasures they dismissed so easily were in fact the true significance of their lives- all the time these things were the great and wonderful successes and purpose of their existence.
Paul Hoffman
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.
Harvey MacKay
In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.
Harold Holzer
We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?
Hilary Grossman
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
Barbara W. Tuchman
The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln
Harold Holzer
As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box.
Mary Sage Nguyen
Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.
Barbara W. Tuchman
I work pretty hard for a sufficient living, and therefore – yes, I do well.
Charles Dickens
Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. A swollen udder is very uncomfortable
W Somerset Maugham
If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.
Shannon L. Alder
She seemed always to have seen him through a blur - first of sleepiness, then of distance and indifference - and now the fog had thickened till he was almost indistinguishable.
Edith Wharton
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.
Jeanette Winterson
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling..
Oscar Wilde
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
To some extent the romantic condemnation of rationality stems from the very effectiveness of rationality in uplifting men from primitive conditions.
Robert M. Pirsig
There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
Walter Isaacson
We're all traitors now.” “Ha!” the old lady said. “Only if we lose.
James S.A. Corey
Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys. The sun that gilds the summits will gild them more for him than for someone at the top who must endure the bright light; and the palace perched high in the woods will be more beautiful for those who see it from the valley than for those who, imprisoned in its rooms, forget it.
Fernando Pessoa
An old person knows what it’s like to be young, but a young person doesn’t know what it’s like to be old. There’s no substitute for life experience.
Eleanor Brownn
Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you’re a Smurf.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough decades, and a body slowly twists into one great cramp, but there was a time once, where she had been sexy, and if not sexy, at least odd-looking enough to compel. Through this clear window she could see how good it all had been. She had no regrets. That's not true, Mathilde. The whisper in the ear. Oh, Christ, yes, there was one. Solitary, gleaming, a regret. It was that all her life she had said no. From the beginning she had let so few people in. That first night, his young face glowing up a hers in the black light, bodies beating the air around them, and inside there was that unexpected sharp recognition, oh, this. A sudden peace arriving for her. She who hadn't been at peace since she was so little. Out of nowhere, out of this surprising night with its shatters of lightning and the stormy black campus outside, with the heat and song and sex and animal fear inside. He had seen her and made the leap and swung through the crowd and taken her hand, this bright boy who was giving her a place to rest. He offered not only his whole laughing self, the past that build him and the warm beating body that moved her with its beauty and the future she felt compressed and waiting, but also the torch he carried before him in the dark, his understanding, dazzling, instant, that there was goodness at her core. With the gift came the bitter seed of regret, the unbridgeable gap between the Mathilde she was and the Mathilde he had seen her to be. A question, in the end, of vision. She wished she'd been the kind Mathilde, the good one, his idea of her. She would have looked smiling down at him, she would've heard beyond marry me to the world that spun behind the words. There would have been no pause, no hesitation. She would've laughed, touched his face for the first time, felt his warmth in the palm of her hand.'Yes,' she would've said. 'Sure.
Lauren Groff
Your eight is someone's infinity.
NITYA MORE
This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The older they get, the better they get when they were younger
Jim Bouton
Everyone's memories and feelings are subjective, and we're teach trapped in our own perspectives. But the difference between perspectives, collectively, create objectivity.
Bao Shu
Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?
Leonardo Donofrio
No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon
Andrew Roberts
Never let your perspective change the truth. The truth should always change your perspective.
Stephen D. Matthews
I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon
Andrew Roberts
High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.
Jim Bouton
The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.
Robert J. Allison
If I'd defined success very narrowly, limiting it to peak, high-visibility experiences, I would have felt very unsuccessful and unhappy during those years. Life is just a lot better if you feel you're having 10 wins a day rather than a win every 10 years or so.
Chris Hadfield
The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of “rules.
Pearl Zhu
If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.
Gavin Mills
Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.
Mitch Albom

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