Quotes About Perspective

It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied.

But, as is obvious to any observer, many people are thrown into anxiety by situations which are not objectively threatening either in kind or degree. The person may very often state himself that the occasion of his anxiety is a relatively minor event, that his apprehension is 'silly,' and he may be angry with himself for letting such a minor thing bother him; but he still feels it.

When I was eighteen, Germany was eighteen," said Goethe,

Compassion gives us fresh perspective on what it means to be human, and helps us judge less harshly ourselves as well as the persons who impinge upon us.

what an individual seeks to become determines what he remembers of his has been. In this sense the future determines the past.

Tik priart?jus ketvirt? dešimt?, po ilg? klajoni? tarp šedevr? man atsiv?r? tiesa ir supratau, kad paskutinio kamuoliuko išvis n?ra.

Ma io non ci tengo tanto a essere felice, preferisco ancora la vita. La felicità è una bella schifezza e una carogna e bisognerebbe insegnarle a vivere. Non siamo della stessa razza, io e lei, e a me non me ne frega niente.

L'ironia è una dichiarazione di dignità. È l'affermazione della superiorità dell'essere umano su quello che gli capita.

There are those who have said about us, "What does she see in him?" or "What does he see in her?"; the usual sort of thing that only proves two people indeed see everything in each other.

When a man close to sixty decides to break with a young woman whom he loves, and who loves him, what would you call it? — Damned stupidity, sir. — Yes, damned stupidity; in other words, 'good sense'.

nors beveik vis? m?s? šiandien jau neb?ra gyv?, mes likome linksmi ir dažnai susitinkame gyvi jaun? mus supan?i? žmoni? žvilgsniuose.

rien n'est blanc ou noir et que le blanc, c'est souvent le noir qui se cache et le noir, c'est parfois le blanc qui s'est fait avoir.

As you know, when an American sees another driving a Cadillac, he says to himself: 'One day I too will drive a Cadillac.' But when a Frenchman feels intimidated by someone else's car, he says: 'Why can't the bum drive a jalopy, like everyone else?

Il lui servit une dose maison de ce vieil optimisme américain, qu'ils ont en Europe.

But perhaps there are points about which one never grows old. And it is no more agreeable at sixty-three to feel that a young woman no longer considers you a man than it is at sixteen to feel that she still considers you a child.

Žinoma, galime toli nuklysti, bet juk negali r?pintis vien savimi pa?iu, taip visai sukvail?si. Galvodamas apie Kambodž? ir panašius dalykus, mažiau galvoji apie save pat?. Kai nepakankamai galvoji apie kitus, tada per daug galvoji apie save, <...>.

On dit que l'amour est aveugle mais avec toi, qui sait, la cécité est peut-être une façon de voir...

They had spent a few years in Paris, but they had still to undergo a real education — one which no school, lycee or university could supply: they had still to undergo their education in suffering. Then they'd be ready to understand what this was all about.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être vécu qui n'est pas d'abord une oeuvre d'imagination, ou alors la mer ne serait plus que de l'eau salée...

There is, of course, Niemen, in Switzerland, and Horsschitt, in Germany... It all depends on what you mean by 'love'.

I guess I'm only talking about my childhood. Things that become part of you when you're a child and then you grow up and somehow they don't—and that's how you never get to be a mature person, an adult, with those naïve beliefs in you that never grew up . . .

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

The true man of culture is not he who makes of himself and his ideal the center of the universe, but who looking around him sees, as in the sky the stream of the Milky Way, thousands of little flames which flow with his own; and who seeks neither to absorb them nor to impose upon them his own course, but to give himself the religious persuasion of their value and of the common source of the fire by which all alike are fed.

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.