Quotes About Perspective

God save you, dear reader, from an idée fixe, better a speck, a mote in the eye

Cada qual sabe amar a seu modo; o modo pouco importa; o essencial é que saiba amar.

Não, insistiu o Tenente Porfírio. Repare que para cada provérbio afirmando uma coisa, há outro provérbio afirmando a coisa contrária. Os provérbios mentem.

Não chores, meu bem; não queiras que o dia amanheça com duas auroras.

Três meses, três minutos! Eis toda a verdade da vida. Se os pusessem sobre uma grelha, como São Lourenço, cinco minutos eram cinco meses. E ainda se fala em tempo! Há lá tempo! O tempo está nas nossas impressões. Há meses para os infelizes e minutos para os venturosos!

Um astrólogo contemplava os astros, com tamanha atenção, que caiu num poço. Uma velha da Trácia vendo-o cair, soltou esta exclamação: Se ele não via o que lhe estava aos pés, para que havia de investigar o que lá fica tão em cima!

Greeks, sub-Greeks, anti-Greeks, the whole long series of men bent over the well, to see the truth come out, which was not there.

Um coqueiro, vendo-me inquieto e adivinhando a causa, murmurou de cima de si que não era feio que os meninos de quinze anos andassem nos cantos com as meninas de quatorze; ao contrário, os adolescentes daquela idade não tinham outro ofício, nem os cantos outra utilidade.

Na mulher, o sexo corrige a banalidade; no homem, agrava.

Pangloss, he told me as he closed the book, was not as foolish as Voltaire had painted him.

A leitora, que é minha amiga e abriu este livro com o fim de descansar da cavatina de ontem para a valsa de hoje, quer fechá-lo às pressas, ao ver que beiramos um abismo. Não faça isso, querida; eu mudo de rumo.

Tio Cosme respondeu com um Ora! que, traduzido em vulgar, queria dizer: São imaginações do José Dias; os pequenos divertem-se, eu divirto-me; onde está o gamão?

Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.

I take the Bible too seriously to take it all literally.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on to believe what to many people is impossible. Instead of rejoicing in this glorious impossible which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his might actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.

Art is communication.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.