Quotes About Perspective

We may be happy with little when we have come to expect little. And we may be miserable with much when we have been taught to expect everything.

It is the news that introduces us to a far wider range of human beings than we could ever meet in person, and that over time, through the stories it runs and the way it comments on them, forms an idea in our minds about the kind of country we live in.

You ask whether the Orient is all I imagined it to be. Yes, it is—and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in my mind.'   8.

Just as a childhood can be released from the odour of a washing powder or cup of tea, an entire culture can spring from the angles of a few lines.

Human beings sometimes interest me but I don't like them because they are not intelligent enough.

At the heart of the pain created by sexual rejection is our habit of interpreting it as a moral judgement, when it might more accurately be categorized as a mere accident.

Când doi oameni sunt meniÈ›i s? tr?iasc? împreun?, exist? - pur È™i simplu - în cele din urm? - un sentiment în?l??tor È™i reciproc, în temeiul c?ruia ambele p?rÈ›i v?d lumea exact la fel.

the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience'.

Many people after a horrific few months or years of breakdown, will say: "I don't know how I'd ever have gotten well if I hadn't fallen ill".

Seyahatler, dolayl? da olsa, iÅŸ ortam?n?n ve ayakta kalma mücadelesinin a??r koÅŸullar?ndan s?yr?ld???m?zda nas?l bir yaÅŸam?m?z olaca??n?, istediÄŸimiz gibi yaÅŸamaktan ne anlad???m?z? ortaya koyar.

Everything is amazing—once.

Never have they publicly fielded the one question that truly preoccupies them: "what is it like to have been married awhile?

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

His impression of her freedom and autonomy scares as much as it excites him.

bir iliÅŸkinin baÅŸar?s?n? s?rf çiftin beraber ne kadar mutlu olduÄŸuna bakarak deÄŸil, her bir partnerin bir iliÅŸkide olmama fikrini ne kadar dert ettiÄŸini de göz önünde bulundurarak deÄŸerlendirmek gerekir.

He feeds her his worlds.

Melancholy isn't always a disorder that needs to be cured.

We usually believe gossip about ourselves to have been inspired by a level of malice far greater (or more critical) than the malice we ourselves felt in relation to the last person we gossiped about, a person whose habits we could mock without this in any way altering our affection for them.

I thought of the similarities of complaints--always selfishness, always blindness--and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

What we complain of in others, others will complain of in us.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them fully developed in someone else.

Every person we envy holds out a piece of the jigsaw about our possible later achievements.

we shouldn't have needed the cataclysm to love life today. It would have been enough to think that we are humans, and that death may come this evening.

In moments of lucidity, we should be able to see for ourselves that untrammeled liberty can paradoxically trap us