#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

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

I am definitively not a 'universalist'". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#universal-perspective #universalism #r-alan-woods

...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

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #humour #perspective #philosophie #humor

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

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it ↗

— Henry James

#perspective #reality #change