Quotes About Perspective

Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.

Man makes his history with the one hand and "holds it up" with the other.

Any man can look upon the head in death, but no man can look upon the feet.

If I should try to put it into words, I mean how I did see her, it would be incomprehensible, for the simple reason that I find that I never did have a really clear idea of her at any time. I had an image of her, but that is not the same thing. An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. I had gathered, of course, a good deal from you, and later, after she went away, from others, but this only strengthened my confusion. The more we learn of a person, the less we know.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

A fresh approach to a work of music (...) usually comes to those who have a fresh approach to aspects of life, to life in general.

I don't see anything shameful in [gypsy songs] as opposed to, say, Prokofiev, who pretended to be enraged when he heard such music. He probably had a better musical education than I di. But at least I'm not a snob.

Prejudice is subjectiveness's sister.

Ja smatram da postoje svi razlozi za život, ali ne uvek, ne i za svakoga. Ponekad nema smisla živeti samo života radi. Ali o tome ne možemo ubedljivo razgovarati. Ni sporiti. Sva su ta velika pitanja života sasvim li?na stvar.

I bez stvarnog zna?aja nam je što je vasiona beskraj i krug, jer mi verujemo da smo u njenom centru. I sa svim svojim napretkom i znanjima, mi se u sebi nismo promakli od tog privida, te svoje jedne ta?kice u središtu plavog prostora. Jer bilo šta da uradimo, bilo gde da stignemo, uvek smo u središtu, uvek smo sebi u središtu, svagda nam se horizonti savijaju u krug. Kad bismo bar videli da je taj krug nama jedino vidna i znana - ve?nost. Ve?nost kojoj ne pripadamo.

Stvari, i sve oko nas, imaju ono lice koje im mi dajemo.

Život ionako nikada nije bio moja jabuka. I ništa moje ne?e ostati ni na jednoj obali.

Hadži?: Gospodine generale, te ?injenice zna i Vrhovna Komanda. A sa brega se dalje vidi, stara je mudrost. General Miši?: Ali pod uslovom da oni na vrhu brega nisu slepi, da imaju bolje o?i od onih što su na strani ili u podnožju. A ja u mnogim prilikama sumnjam u vidovitost onih što gledaju s vrha brega. Ako su im oblaci bliži, ljudi su im manji.

Imam toliko iskustva da pouzdano znam: u stvaranju I ljubavi tu?a iskustva ne zna?e skoro ništa.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't always spoil the good things and make them unimportant.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

do not view mountains from the scale of human thought

What you think in your own mind to be good, or what people of the world think is good, is not necessarily good.