“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.” PeopleIfsWellsMeanPersonsI CanReasonWholeIndividualSocialWaitingSeeingInformationParticularPerspectiveCircumstancesOrdinaryAdvantagePatientLazyIntercourseTherapistsTotalityWhole PersonConcluding Author:Alan Loy McGinnis
“In all my ways of seeing - may I use new glasses, a telescope and a microscope. And may I always allow myself to see a circumstance through the tender hearts of my friends.” WayHeartMayUseSeeingFriendsCircumstancesMy FriendsGlassesMy WayFriends ForeverTelescopesMicroscopesNew RelationshipTender Hearts Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.” WorldAbleSinSeeingWorstSubjectsCircumstancesOffersNormalStandardsExpectationsMercyInsightAcceptedBoundariesHardshipTemporaryExceedSeeing The WorldVelocityDecorumReprieve Author:Steve Almond
“We should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried. The more I am in a position to be tried in faith, the more I will have the opportunity of seeing God’s help and deliverance. Every fresh instance in which He helps and delivers me will increase my faith. The believer should not shrink from situations, positions, or circumstances in which his faith may be tried, but he should cheerfully embrace them as opportunities to see the hand of God stretched out in help and deliverance. Thus his faith will be strengthened.” ShouldMayHelpingHandsOpportunitySituationSeeingPositionCircumstancesIncreaseEmbraceBelieverInstanceShrinksDeliveranceHands Of God Author:George Muller
“His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.” PeopleWaySaidRealUsedSeeingExampleCircumstancesDoctorsBaseballBraveryMovedPatientRemarkableStarks Author:Bob Costas
“What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.” FactsImaginationCompassionMeditationSeeingCircumstancesComfortableHearingSeats Book:The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra Source: The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra
“Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.” GivingShouldBelieveKindUseFormSeeingFineCircumstancesTastePerceptionFavorsDeceptionOpponentsPolitenessMake BelieveTact Author:Grenville Kleiser
“But the web is to some degree a broth of psychopaths seeing what they can get away with in circumstances of anonymity. Look, we live in a world where one is unsafe in various ways because of the Internet. Anything can be said. Someone can look at your house from space.” WorldWayLooksSaidHouseSpaceSeeingInternetCircumstancesDegreesVariousGet AwayAnonymityPsychopathUnsafe Author:William Monahan
“I would have to make an evaluation based on the circumstances at the time I took office as to how much help they continue to need. Because it's not just the Taliban. We now are seeing outposts of, you know, fighters claiming to be affiliated with ISIS.” KnowsNeedsHelpingSeeingCircumstancesOfficeFighterIsisTalibanEvaluation Author:Hillary Clinton
“When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding.” PeopleTryingHeartSoulSeeingCircumstancesTemptationHeart And SoulResponding Author:Matt Bomer
“Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.” MeanEnoughStrongBreakSupportSeeingTreeBalanceCircumstancesRootsFasterContinuingFlexibleStrong EnoughTrunksSupport MePushovers Author:Brenda Strong
“I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.” WayWantGivingMindHardKidsWifeSeeingCircumstancesFoundationMy WifeDrivenWho I AmBoardsCulinaryGiving Back Author:Emeril Lagasse