Perspective Quotes

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Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom… — Steven Pinker
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows… — Terry Pratchett
God, I hate you,â€ she says. â€œSo much. Why do boys think that it will be better to lie and tell a girl how much… — Holly Black
When you step away from it all, you lose perspective. — Ted Dekker
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;… — C.S. Lewis
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons. — Khaled Hosseini
Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the… — Nick Harkaway
â€ŽBe careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole. — Jean Webster
Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our… — Charles R. Swindoll
We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our countryâ€¦. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And… — Morrie Schwartz
It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen… — Pema Chodron
We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able… — Patti Smith
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely… — Lois McMaster Bujold
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and… — Eleanor Catton
When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It… — Bill Bryson
Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence… — Chinua Achebe
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind. — Bruce H. Lipton
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade… — Maurice Blanchot
Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you… — Jun Mochizuki

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