Quotes About Perspective

The trick is perhaps not to start a new life but to learn to reconsider the old one with less jaded and habituated eyes.

Because we inhibit the same material world and manoeuvre with languages tied to common definitions, we talk to others in the assumption that they largely share our images and conceptions.

I'm nothing, I'm everything,' he declared. 'The street is my mother. The sun is my father. What more should I ask of life?

Lorsque les Blancs sont venus en Afrique, nous avions la terre et ils avaient la Bible. Ils nous ont appris à prier les yeux fermés: lorsque nous les avons ouverts, les Blancs avaient la terre et nous la Bible.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter.

In the end, you can always convince yourself that a version of the truth is the truth itself.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

I would have thought, said the prime minister, that Your Majesty was above literature. Above literature? said the Queen. Who is above literature? You might as well say one is above humanity.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try to tell them.

One recipe for happiness is to have no sense of entitlement

But ma'am must have been briefed, surely?' 'Of course,' said the Queen, 'but briefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Had she been asked if reading had enriched her life she would have had to say yes, undoubtedly, though adding with equal certainty that it had at the same time drained her life of all purpose.

When he dipped his cake in his tea - a disgusting business - the whole of his life came back to him. When I did it nothing happened.

as I think Hebbel says, in a good play everyone is right.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Books are not about passing the time.They're about other lives.

Geoffrey's bad enough but I'm glad I wasn't married to Jesus.

On cherche dans un livre la confirmation de ses propres convictions.

I wanted to say that the literature may say that, but that literature doesn't.

This was life, and if some things were kapu, others weren't; she had to stop regretting the ones that were and start enjoying the ones that were not.

ACIM states that you will be appalled when you realize what you are truly here for (T-17.V.5:6). You thought you were here to get stuff, prove yourself, and find people to love you. Instead you are here get peace, be yourself, and find people to love. You thought you were here to fix the world. Instead you are here to appreciate what is before you and see the world through new eyes.

Don't wait for the world to change. Change your mind about the world.

Everyone is continuously finding evidence to prove what they want to believe.