Quotes About Perspective

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

My concern always has been with how—not why—people make transitions out of relationships. Many times the people I talked to did not understand why themselves. Even when they thought they knew, the reasons changed, so that what seemed to explain it at one time often did not seem important six months later.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Our own difficulties shouldn't blind us to the difficulties of others.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL. Earl

She looked at a microscope and saw a creator God. Chad looked at a microscope and saw man's scientific advances.

There is no surer basis for fanaticism than bad history, which is invariably history oversimplified.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

From our perspective, trying to deal with this continuing campaign of terror, if you will, the war on terror that we're engaged in, this is a continuing enterprise. The people that were involved in some of those activities before 9/11 are still out there.

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

Den enes helgon har varit den andres satkärring -- på 1300-talet liksom i nutiden.

There's no point in crying over spilt milk!' CHAPTER SEVEN

And he said, This schoolroom is an immense town, and in it there are a million inhabitants, and only five-and-twenty are starved to death in the streets, in the course of a year. What is your remark on that proportion? And my remark was- for I couldn't think of a better one- that I thought it must be just as hard upon those who were starved , whether the others were a million, or a million million.

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

C'est vrai, alors, que l'on devient si vite égoïste lorsque l'on est heureux ?

Wir glauben nur das, was wir sehen. Darum glauben wir alles, seit es das Fernsehen gibt.

There remains an experience of incomparable value. We have for once learned to see the great events of world history from below, from the perspective of the outcasts, the suspects, the maltreated in short, from the perspective of those who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. Christians are called to compassion and to action.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.

I wonder why it is that we find some days so much more oppressive than others, for no apparent reason. Is it growing pains - or spiritual trial? Once they're over, the world looks quite a different place again.

Unfortunately I'm not on the same wavelength as Maria yet in the literary sphere. She writes me such good, natural letters, but she reads…Rilke, Bergengruen, Binding, Wiechert; I regard the last three as being below our level and the first as being decidedly unhealthy.