Quotes About Perspective

Impossible stories, stories with No Entry signs on them, change our lives, and our minds, as often as the authorized versions, the stories we are expected to trust, upon which we are asked, or told, to build our judgements, and our lives.

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.

Normal doesn't feel so normal to me, I tell him. It's normal to feel that way, he replies.

It's as if we're standing still and the world is traveling past us. Or maybe the world is TV and I don't know who's in charge of the zapper.

The true story is there's no true story any more. There's no true any more that anyone can agree on.

One day, perhaps, the world may taste the pickles of history. They may be too strong for some palates, their smell may be overpowering, tears may rise to eyes; I hope nevertheless that it will be possible to say of them that they possess the authentic taste of truth … that they are, despite everything, acts of love.

since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

a person must sometimes choose what he will see and what he will not; look away, look away from there now.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same

REALITY IS A QUESTION of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems—but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

la memoria es verdad, porque la memoria tiene su forma de ser especial. Selecciona, elimina, altera, exagera, minimiza, glorifica, y difama también; pero, en definitiva, crea su propia realidad, su versión heterogénea pero normalmente coherente de los acontecimientos; y ningún hombre en su sano juicio confía más

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return

Deprived of the income he had received from Homi Catrack, my uncle had taken his booming voice and his obsessions with hearts and reality up to the roof of his Marine Drive apartment block; he had stepped out into the evening sea-breeze, frightening the beggars so much (when he fell) that they gave up pretending to be blind and ran away yelling … in death as in life, Hanif Aziz espoused the cause of truth and put illusion to flight.

But the past is not less valuable because it is no longer the present. In fact, it's more important, because forever unseen.

you lost parents. Your grief defines you and shuts you off from other people. That's what I think.

El hecho de estar vivo te compensa de las cosas que te hace la vida.

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own," said Birbal, "and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none." The first minister and the emperor were standing at

Kinder machen sich Phantasievorstellungen von ihren Vätern, formen sie sich nach ihren kindlichen Bedürfnissen. Die Realität eines Vaters ist eine Last, die nur wenige Söhne zu tragen vermögen.

Apa gunanya dongeng-dongeng itu? Hidup bukanlah sebuah buku cerita atau toko lelucon (hal.18)

Bir ÅŸey tabi hiçbir ÅŸey den çok, çok daha iyidir, yar? memnun geçirdiÄŸimiz ömrün sonunda kar??m?za ç?ksa bile.

An eighteen-year age gap had turned out to be a good place to dump most of the problems that can sometimes crop up between brothers

Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

All of us are in two stories at the same time,' said the sandwich lady. 'Life and Times. There is our own personal story, and the bigger story of what's happening around us. When both are in trouble simultaneously, when the crisis inside you intersects with the crisis outside you, things get a little crazy.

The more I see of the West, he says, the more I realize that the best things in life come from the East.