Quotes About Perspective

I told Carolyn it was a great day for running, and she told me there was no such thing.

Earlier you made her sound like a victim. Now she sounds like a villain." "Everybody's both.

an auction where most of the bidders wouldn't pay thirty-five cents to see Christ ride a bicycle.

Right there! See the blue on its head? See the long tail?" "Oh, there he is," I said, just to bring this little farce to an end. I couldn't see the bird, and I knew I wasn't going to see the bird, and I was rapidly tiring of the whole enterprise. "Beautiful, isn't he?" "Gorgeous," I agreed. "I'd have hated to miss him.

The accumulator, with his acquisitions stuffed into boxes in no apparent order, is every bit as acceptable a philatelist as the collector trying slowly and painstakingly to fill, with flawlessly centered, post office-fresh examples, all the spaces in a single hingeless album. We're all in this together, and I figure whatever system we devise for ourselves is just fine.

Death is not always an occasion for sorrow.

If today is a consummation devoutly to be wished, how can I regret anything that helped bring it into being?

Well, that was well before awesome. People who say awesome now wouldn't be born for another thirty years. What's it about, Bern? Colonies on Alpha Centauri? Space ships shooting at each other with lasers?

Love Yourself And Let The Other Person Have It Your Way

The answer is, be positive in spite of what you have or what's happening. That's how to be happy.

I have decided to leave Clea's last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Words, the acid-bath of words.

Balthazar sighed and said Truth naked and unashamed. That's a splendid phrase. But we always see her as she seems, never as she is. Each man has his own interpretation.

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

Even "time is money" comes into the picture; and then, if you think that money is excrement for the Freudian, you understand that time must be also!

There is always a philosophy behind the misadventures of men, even if they are unaware of it.' And

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine'.)

Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.

Of course, one must always remember that truth itself is always halved in utterance.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.