Quotes About Perspective

Were we happy tonight because we were happy or because once, a long time back, we had been happy? Was our happiness tonight like the light of the moon, which does not come from the moon, for the moon is cold and has no light of its own, but is reflected light from far away?

To wake in some dawn and see / As though down a rifle barrel, lined up / Like sights, the self that was, the self that is, and there / Far off but in range, completing that alignment, your fate.

I had found the truth, I had dug the truth up out of the ash pile, the garbage heap, the kitchen midden, the bone yard, and had sent that little piece of truth to Adam Stanton. I couldn't cut the truth to match his ideas. Well, he'd have to make his ideas match the truth. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. The truth shall make you free.

It is human defect—to try to know oneself by the self of another. One can only know oneself in God and in His great eye.)

If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway

What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist. I was

it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

The world has no existence whatsoever outside of the human imagination.

Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they do so in an interesting way.

we must understand that suffering results from the stories we tell ourselves.

We can choose to feel angry, hurt, and burdened, or we can recognize that the experience, though painful, is a magnificent opportunity for enhanced self-understanding.

From the viewpoint of the soul, no event or course of action is "bad." All is simply experience, and every experience teaches and offers seeds of growth.

Picasso has magical eyes. He sees the world so differently than we do, but he is able to make us understand what he sees. That's what a truly great artist does

Many reasons had been given, and every man adopted the rationale which suited his own particular emotionality. But what seemed obvious at the time became less so as the years passed. Professors of history argued, experts in economics demurred, psychologists begged to differ, and anthropologists felt it necessary to point out.

Eh, Mijnheer, querenzie tomar la klopje inmensa de la cabeza vefrouvens in forma de ein skoboldash sundae?

C'est insensé Vous avez tout perdu. - Je ne suis pas de votre avis. Permettez-moi de vous faire remarquer que je suis toujours en vie - Je vous l'accorde. Pour le moment.

They were wise in their own skills, but most of them seemed to think that that made them wise in everything, which did not appear to be the case.

They say this is the richest era of human existence; but I think a man can be richer in knowing every atom of a single golden island in a blue sea than by spending his days striding among all the worlds.

Sometimes one does not learn the value of things until they are lost.

Economists whose common sense had not been completely destroyed by their theories rejected the drastic cure of destroying the existing economy in order to rebuild it in the correct proportions.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

Money is just an idea.

every coin has three sides

Whenever you find yourself avoiding something you know you should be doing, then the only thing to ask yourself is, "What's in it for me?" Be a little greedy. It's the best cure for laziness.