Quotes About Perspective

Công th?c cho s? ngu d?t chung thân là: Th?a mãn v?i quan ?i?m c?a mình và hài lòng v?i tri th?c c?a mình.

No se tome la vida demasiado en serio; nunca saldrá usted vivo de ella

Not only have you been trained so thoroughly in how to think, but you have also been given the alternatives by which you could object to thinking a certain way.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them." —Ral ph Waldo Emerson

Men fought and died, each with his own reasons, and only the gods, if gods there were, might be able to sort through the carnage. Right and wrong were shifting targets, relying heavily on where one stood. The only constant a man could truly hope to find, the only integrity, was that which he created for himself by matching deeds to words—be they kind, cruel, or something in between.

I am the Little Bug Spirit. I come to people when they begin to take themselves too seriously. They think they are big. I cut them down to size.

Knowledge—by itself—is an intervention. Our presence changes the way the natives see the world. According to her, there is no way to study these people without causing change." "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle,

It's a typical Western bias. You think a tool is more important than a dream because a tool can be measured and a dream cannot.

It is impossible to explain anything to those who are both angry and terrified.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

It kept humping up in the middle. Right now it looked more like a giant's skullcap

And some young country miss Giving her lad a kiss, Quite certain that the olden times were not so good as this.

And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that....

Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22)

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

I don't see how you can find anything about this poor-people business to be glad for. Of course we can be glad for ourselves that we aren't poor like them; but whenever I'm thinking how glad I am for that, I get so sorry for them that I CAN'T be glad any longer. Of course we COULD be glad there were poor folks, because we could help them. But if we DON'T help them, where's the glad part of that coming in?

But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. —Michel de Montaigne O

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Understanding is a two-way street.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.