Quotes About Perspective

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Victory and defeat are a part of life, which are to be viewed with equanimity.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

While we walking, while we breathing, we dying... I be really feeling like, even though we live to die, some people be dying to live.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.