#perspective

I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced. ↗

— Sting

#balanced #briefly #generally #i #i am

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really makes a difference is having some perspective on what happened. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#adventures #away #difference #fun #go

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. ↗

— David Suzuki

#change #changes #environmental #evolutionary #explosive

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes. ↗

— John Fahey

#friends #i #i am #looking #perspective

Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist. ↗

— Simon Cheshire

#music #perspectives #life

Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences over time by connecting them as a developing, continuing story. ↗

— Jacqui Stedmon

#life-story #narrative #perspective #experience

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#lunch #perspective #priorities #humor

I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you will continue to hurt anyone that reminds you of those moments when you let your guard down and where fooled. Sadly, it sends a clear message to the observant that you still are hurt. If only women would realize that "we all" have moments of stupidity then they would stop comparing themselves to the masses. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#gossip #perspective #self-esteem #women #gossip

In all tests of character, when two viewpoints are pitted against one another, in the final analysis the thing that will strike you the most, is not who was right or wrong, strong or weak, wise or foolish.... but who would go to the greatest lengths in considering the other's perspective. ↗

— Mike Dooley

#perspective

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#perspective #purpose #tennis #perspective