Quotes About Perspective

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

For it may happen to the commonwealth, as to the serpent in the fable, whose tail, rising in rebellion against the head, complained, as of a great grievance, that it was always forced to follow, and required that it should be permitted by turns to lead the way. And taking the command accordingly, it soon inflicted , by its senseless courses, mischiefs in abundance upon itself, while the head was torn and lacerated with following, contrary to nature, a guide that was deaf and blind.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Most people would live in an outhouse in Bangladesh before they would voluntarily move to Nebraska.

but happiness is like this, not handed out by the bucket from your television set but measured from a thimble by a stingy but wise old God and so we savored it

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

It's better to be fooled a hundred times than never to look.

When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you . It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.

Sometimes it is good to have things happen to you outside of your control. There are parts of yourself you would never discover otherwise.

No one really understands a family but the people in it and even they each understand it differently.

Are you out of your candy wrapper?

You're sweet, Leo," said Jaya. "But how do you know the you in the world where I'm not me isn't saying the exact same thing to the not-me me right now?" "I don't. But I don't care what he's saying because he's not me. He's just some other guy saying something to some other girl who isn't you. Or maybe he's the girl and you're a guy in which case he's some other girl saying something to some other guy who isn't you," I said. "It has nothing to do with us.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

Tidak masalah membayangkan pernikahan akan seperti New York City dan mendapati bahwa ternyata lebih menyerupai Brussels. Bukan berarti ada yang salah, atau bahwa kau dikutuk untuk bercerai. Itu hanya berarti bahwa kau menaiki pesawat yang berbeda.

At a first glance, medical psychology seems to have nothing to do with religion. But at its depth it provides a new, though at the same time primordial, perspective on what should be the subject matter of religion. It is both a criticism and an approval of religion. It is in and through the soul that problems of the world reveal themselves as world problems.

He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace.

More worship the rising than the setting sun.

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

Was all the hardship there to demonstrate how unlucky I was, or was I actually a very lucky person given that I'd survived so much?

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.