Quotes About Perspective

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

You corrupt very easily, he thought. But was it corruption or was it merely that you lost the naïveté that you started with?

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

But the world they were in was not the world he was in.

Se si sta abbastanza a lungo in una stanza la veduta, qualunque sia, acquista un gran valore e diventa importantissima e nessuno la cambierebbe, nemmeno per una diversa angolazione.

Quando le cose vanno bene e sei tu a sentirti giù di corda, un bicchiere può parti sentir meglio. Ma quando sono le cose ad andar male e tu bene, un bicchiere non può far altro che chiarirti ulteriormente il concetto.

Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that.

We can have everything. No, we can't. We can have the whole world. No, we can't. We can go everywhere. No, we can't. It isn't ours any more. Its ours. No, it isn't.

The war seemed as far away as the football games of someone else's college.

Pamplona is changed, of course, but not as much as we are older. I found that if you took a drink that it got very much the same as it always was.

As we listen, truly hearing, our understanding of the world changes from a self-centered focus to an other-oriented openness—we come to understand how we are connected

Those who lack gratitude's vision do not possess things; things possess them. And that is misery.

who think of themselves as "spiritual rather than religious" tend to equate religion with belief, and therefore with doctrine and authority; with

I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.

I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factos that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

If you find yourself living in a world where there is only cynicism, negativity, and distrust, you need to realize that it's a world of your own making. There is a more beautiful world out there to be known, but you have to be able to see it. You have to want it. You must be willing to risk, to step outside of what you know, to live in a more extraordinary unknown.

Isn't it interesting how we think of grace as something less than the law?

The most important things in life rarely come with urgency. It may seem counter intuitive, but the most important things in life are easily pushed to the back burner.

Solamente cuando entendemos que somos terminales es cuando comenzamos a tratar el tiempo con el respeto que merece.

We do not see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.

fear has a direct object, anxiety is fear without an object. We experience anxiety when we feel overwhelmed by life. In order to reduce our anxiety, we often create smaller and smaller boundaries to give us some sense of control over our lives.

Wisdom understands that it is less important to win a fight or a point than it is to win the person. Wisdom knows that you should never fight against people; you should fight for them.