Quotes About Perspective

WEIRD people (people in cultures that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)

expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de

expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself."—de la Vega.)

Don't bother explaining—I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

I have known fellows to whom the earth was so full of little pleasures that after the worst clouts they rose like larks from a furrow. A wise philosophy--but I had none of it. I always saw the little pageant of man's life like a child's peep-show beside the dark wastes of eternity.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

We do not look on death the way you do, farang. My closest colleagues grasp my arm and one or two embrace me. No one says sorry. Would you be sorry for a sunset?

Beauty is a great mountain, Detective, and fashion only illuminates one face at a time.

We pray with sometimes unseemly insistence for specific things to happen. We give no thought to the myriad ways in which they might come to pass.

No poem lovely as a tree, she said (though I'd never once thought to compare)

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise you own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Literature does not grow wild in the woods. Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars....

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Don't despise your own place and hour. Every place is the center of the world.