#perspective

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene? ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#perception #perspective #faith

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#faith #perspective #tradition #faith

Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me. ↗

— Moez Surani

#familial-perspectives #favoritism #floaters #graciousness #politicized-spaces

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#inspirational #perspective #inspirational

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant. ↗

— Chris Messner

#introspection #perception #perseverance #perspective #inspirational

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. ↗

— George Eliot

#open-mindedness #perspective #life

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ↗

— Albert Camus

#connection #look-up-and-enjoy-life #perspective #relationship #relax

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#evolution #life #origin-of-life #perspective #philosophy

The huge problems we deal with every day are actually really small. We’re so focused on what bothers us that we don’t even try to see our lives from a clearer perspective. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#perspective #problems #life

You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself ↗

— Ken Kesey

#life #perspective #strength #life