Quotes About Perspective

Yes, they think we're dumb. They call us the common people. But I've been sitting here listening and looking and trying to understand what's so common about us. I think they're guilty of a gross mis-statement of fact-we are the uncommon people-

Perhaps simple to be known, to be looked upon by so many people, to be the focal point of so many concentrating eyes, perhaps this was enough to make one different; enough to transform one into something else, someone else; just as by becoming and increasingly larger boy one became one day a man.

They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me.

Boy on a Train From

An illusion was creating a counter-illusion. Where would it end? Did they believe their own propaganda? Afterwards

I've never been more loved and appreciated than when I tried to "justify" and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friends the incorrect, absurd answers they wished to hear.

What is wrong with this gentleman, Sylvester?' the tall one said. 'A man's dying outside!' I said. 'Someone is always dying,' the other one said. 'Yes, and it's good to die beneath God's great tent of sky.

Besides, I might as well admit right now, I thought, that there are many things about people like Mary that I dislike. For one thing, they seldom know where their personalities end and yours begins; they usually think in terms of we while I have always tended to think in terms of me--and that has caused some friction, even with my own family.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.

But at the same time I was puzzled: How could anyone's fate be pleasant? I had always thought of it as something painful. No one I knew spoke of it as pleasant—not even Woodridge, who made us read Greek plays.

Well, few men love the truth or even regard facts so dearly as to let either one upset their picture of the world.

Have I become one of those bores who talk too much about their children?

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

You become what you think about all day long.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.