Quotes About Perspective

A veces, quienes hemos sido bendecidos tan grandemente parecemos ser los menos capaces de ver la gracia de la mano de Dios sobre nosotros mismos.

He wants us to see what it means to live through the lens of the eternal.

A defini mirarea pentru un adult înainte de a o vedea prin ochii unul copil înseamn? a rata farmecul copil?riei. Cred c? vom descoperi c? deÈ™i copil?ria nu este o soluÈ›ie, ea este cheia pentru ajungerea la destinaÈ›ie.

His stories are so Eastern

It is possible to hold a treasure in your hand but be ignorant of it and go for the wrapping instead. This proximity to truth and distance from its worth is repeated innumerable times in our lives.

Feelings follow belief; belief, then, should follow truth.

Isn't it amazing that we can go through life holding passionately to our views, yet never pausing to ask ourselves why that view is inviolable?

Think of this for a moment. In eighteen milliliters of water (about two swallows full), there are 6 x 1023 molecules of H2O. How much is 6 x 1023? A good computer can carry out ten million counts per second. It would take that computer two billion years to count to 6 x 1023. Look

la incredulidad es contagiosa; es fácil contraerla si no piensa bien en lo que cree y por qué.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

Are you happy?

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.

You're insane! I won't argue that point.

Good to evil seems evil.

I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.

Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously. [ Writer's Digest Interview (Robert Jacobs, Writer's Digest , February 1976)]

Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what the books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

You don't question Providence. If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good.

The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we musn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We're nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.

Kitaplar bize ne tür eÅŸekler ve aptallar olduÄŸumuzu hat?rlatmak içindir. Kitaplar, tören alay? büyük bir gürültü içinde caddede ilerlerken, Sezar'?n kula??na 'Unutma, Sezar, sen de ölümlüsün' diyen pretoryen muhaf?zlar?d?r.