The Big Picture Quotes

“The most beautiful women in the world are the ones that can stand as rivals on the battlefield of love, yet they can still see each other’s pain. They can set down their swords for only just a moment to acknowledge the beauty of the warrior that stands before them—the passion, the fearlessness and the relentless fire that never gives up. It is in this moment that we learn that it is not the man that sees the worth of the hearts torn by battle in his honor; it is the women who have suffered for so long. Two women that can “see” clearly the worth of the other, even while they grow weary from their wounds is the only kind of beauty that matters. For if there wasn’t two worthy opponents there would be no war in love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Hard work works harder than luck!”
― Germany Kent, You Are What You Tweet: Harness the Power of Twitter to Create a Happier, Healthier Life

“There's always, there'll always be, more story. That's what story is...It's the never-ending leaf-fall.”
― Ali Smith, Autumn

“Learning to focus on the big picture will help you keep things in a proper perspective.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“An outsider may wonder how deep a specialist must dig his hole before he realizes that he has lost sight of the horizon...”
― Thor Heyerdahl, Early Man and the Ocean: A Search for the Beginnings of Navigation & Seaborne Civilizations

“But what I knew in my head stayed up there, swirling about the other ten zillion things I had retained. That knowledge informed my actions, what I did and how I did it.
What Emma knew filtered from her head down into her heart and informed who she was—what I have since come to call the Infinite Migration. If my wonderings about life were scientific, bent toward examination and physical discovery, Emma’s all leaned toward matters of the heart. While I could understand and explain the physics behind a rainbow, Emma saw the colors. When it came to life, I saw each piece and how they all fit together, and Emma saw the image on the face of the puzzle. And every now and then, she’d walk me through the door into her world and show it to me.”
― Charles Martin, When Crickets Cry

“Sometimes the most unlikely voice is the one that you need to hear that will allow you to see things in a different light.”
― Germany Kent