Quotes About Perspective

El cielo o el infierno están en nuestra cabeza, no en las cosas materiales que poseemos.

No son las personas las que hacen las interpretaciones sino las interpretaciones las que hacen a las personas.

Quizá la identidad de una persona sólo pueda definirse en relación a las identidades de los demás. O quizá cualquier identidad no sea más que una interpretación de los demás

Heaven or hell is in one's mind, not in the material things one has in the world

Remember that darkness simply requires another way of seeing. Be your own light. And just like that, you'll find yourself everywhere instantly.

Darkness simply requires another way of seeing. Be your own light.

I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

I now know that if you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The formula for a successful relationship is simple: Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.

If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist, and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.

Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

I don't have any pets. I've got enough dumb friends without them.

Humor I think of as the outward sign of the ability to look at events and situations from more than one point of view. It is this gift that keeps us all from living in a perpetual rage.

D.H. Lawrence said that it was not living life that mattered but watching it be lived. I would say that it was not watching life that mattered but explaining what you saw.