Browsing Quotes With Tag: perspective (64)
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If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.
Speaker: Joseph Smith Jr.Source: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The next time someone offends you, strive for the God/Christ-centeredness and bless them in return. Pray for those who persecute you and speak evil against you. Realize that this is one of the missions to which you have been called, and don’t ask to be saved from it.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wisdom is a clear sense of increasing idealism and purpose (things as they should be) as well as a sensitive, practical approach to realities (things as they are).
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil there is one striking at the root.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauSource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.
Speaker: John RuskinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“…It comforts those in pain
To know beforehand all the pain they still must bear.” ChorusSpeaker: AeschylusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
God, the playwright says, is concerned that man should learn wisdom, and has marked out the path; and it is a path of suffering. Men are in one sense free to learn or not to learn; but the painful condition of learning is inexorable. The nature of God, in other words, comprises two elements or principles, one harsh, the other gentle.
Speaker: Philip VellacottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:19 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.
Speaker: Walter RaleighPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I had the blues because I had no shoes
Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am going to meet people today who talk too much – people who are selfish, egotistical, and ungrateful. But I won’t be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn’t imagine a world without such people.
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In the long run every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.
Speaker: EpictetusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
Speaker: Michel de MontaignePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is only one way on God’s green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analyzing our past mistakes and profiting by them – and forgetting them.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not miserable to be blind, it is only miserable not to be able to endure blindness.
Speaker: John MiltonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Salutation to the Dawn
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth
The glory of action
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore to this day!
Such is the salutation to the dawn.Speaker: KalidasaPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Every day is a new life to a wise man.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Speaker: Thomas CarlylePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. Just like what my sister said when I had been in the hospital for a while. She said that she was really worried about going to college, and considering what I was going through, she felt really dumb about it. But I don’t know why she would feel dumb. I’d be worried, too. And really, I don’t think I have it any better or worse than she does. I don’t know. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said, Because it’s okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!