Quotes About Perspective

I live in the world I choose with my thoughts.

You cannot evaluate an insane belief system from within it.

When something sucks, it saps your energy and undermines the quality of your life. It makes you feel smaller and wish you hadn't participated.

Se dice que Mark Twain dijo: «La comparación es la muerte de la alegría».

Your thoughts do not create reality. They either recognize reality or they do not.

Rule makers always draw up their precious rules and regulations in safety and comfort, not out in the field, where those same absolutes are supposed to be applied. At those times we have to rely on our own minds and feelings.

My mommy always said there were no such things as monsters. No real ones. But there are.

Definitely this man was not now and never had been a stormtrooper or anything like it. What he had been, maybe, was someone not unlike herself. A bit of a businessman, a bit of a con man, a bit of an adventurer. And since he was older, it was only reasonable to assume that he had been a bit more of all of those things than herself.

No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For

Higher learning does not preclude the presence of lower minds.

One could get mad at one's neighbor, competitor, or spouse as easily here as on any other settled world. It was just harder to stay quite as mad, with the sun beaming down beneficently, the beach so close, and pleasant woods and lakes beckoning at every turn as soon as one left the city behind.

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust." Still

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them.

That means letting them read books that are too easy for them, or too hard for them. That means letting them read books that challenge them, or do nothing but entertain them. And yes, it means letting students read books with things in them we might disagree with and letting them make up their own minds about things, which is downright scary sometimes. But that's what good education is all about.

I know you think you understand what you thought I said but Im not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

The philosophy that accepts death must itself be considered dead, its questions meaningless, its consolations worn out.

If we are not careful, then, the culture rather than God actually gets to define reality.

It turns out that it is a lot easier to keep believing what everyone around us believes if we ignore or misrepresent the beliefs of our ancestors.

To think independently of other human beings is impossible, and if it were possible it would be undesirable. Thinking is necessarily, thoroughly, and wonderfully social. Everything you think is a response to what someone else has thought and said. And when people commend someone for "thinking for herself" they usually mean "ceasing to sound like people I dislike and starting to sound more like people I approve of.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have turned out differently.

I know what it's like to make common cause with people who are in some ways alien to me; I know how such experiences can expand my understanding of the world; I know how they can force me to confront the narrowness of my vision and my tendency to simplistic thinking—sometimes to not thinking at all.

It's not your job to decide whether people should think you're important or not, hey? Huh? What others think of us is none of our business. Maybe you're more important than you give yourself credit for. This could be God's way of showing you something you should know but don't.

If time and the passage of events are the same, then time moves barely at all. If time and events are not the same, then it is only people who barely move. If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.