#perspective

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him. ↗

— George Eliot

#history #myopia #perspective #reading #life

Raise the bar higher than your opinion... ↗

— Gino Norris

#motivation #opinion #perspective #self-understad-nding #motivational

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-- ↗

— Robert Murray McCheyne

#god #happiness #inspirational #peace #perspective

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#perspective #proportion #inspirational

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits. ↗

— Michaelangelo

#life #perspective #risk #inspirational

The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everyone, eventually, that new perspective from out in space. ↗

— Roger B. Chaffee

#cleaner #eventually #everyone #giving #god

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world. ↗

— Dave Davies

#should #world #you

Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall. ↗

— Norton Juster

#childhood #perspective #childhood

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. a ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#perception #perspective #question #see #perception

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me… ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#human-nature #living #perspective #quote #quotes