#perspective

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. ↗

— John Irving

#perspective #revelation #self-discovery #mistakes

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #clarity #display #hoarding #horror

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#justice #majority #minority #perspective #politics

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestral-memory #bloodlines #dna #familial-perspectives #family

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ... ↗

— John Geddes

#perspective #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#perspective #stalking #wit #humor

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. ↗

— Steven Wright

#perspective #walking #humor

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. ↗

— Ken Keyes Jr.

#love #perspective #love

There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #fears #focus #perspective #suspense

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#perspective #life