Quotes About Perspective

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

aber was weiß man schon, solange man keine Kinder hat? Nichts weiß man, man wandert mit anderen Ahnungslosen durch ein Tal der Ahnungslosigkeit, ich wusste früher auch nicht, wie das sein könnte, ich habe nicht gefragt, was tun diese Mütter den ganzen Tag?

The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.

Después de todo, ¿qué diferencia hay entre vivir y dar explicaciones sobre la vida?

Anche se prendiamo strade diverse, se scopriamo possibilità differenti e torniamo dalla spedizione con esperienze diverse e quindi con soluzioni diverse, non dobbiamo ritenere che nessuna di esse sia inutile a priori, o escluderle in linea di principio solo per il fatto che sono diverse dalla nostra soluzione, inevitabilmente per noi preferibile.

Experience of others can be known only as a processed, interpreted story of what the others lived through.

la verdad, ni bien es pronunciada, se transforma inmediatamente en una opinión entre tantas, es contestada, reformulada, reducida a un tema discursivo entre otros.

Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.

Where we hope to land (and where we do land, though only for a fleeting moment, enough for tired wings to catch the wind anew) is a 'there' which we thought of little and knew of even less.

Mortal life is too short to be worried all the time.

But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window—

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

What destruction have I been blessed by?

Dad. Jacen. Coruscant. Answers. I don't like it that you can win an argument without using verbs.

You're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things. That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for, and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things.

As applied to substance abuse, the cognitive approach helps individuals to come to grips with the problems leading to emotional distress and to gain a broader perspective on their reliance on drugs for pleasure and/or relief from discomfort.

I used to get upset if somebody I didn't like loved a book I loved. That's MY book, I'd think.

other people's condiments are depressing.

If it isn't life and death, it isn't life and death.

neurosis is for the young, who think they are made of time