Quotes About Perspective

But why people? I asked. What does he care about people? He's a bear.

Which is better, to cover the earth with a carpet or to put on shoes?

Erzählen, das bedeutet einen Bogen spannen, wo zunächst keiner ist, den Entwicklungen Struktur und Folgerichtigkeit gerade dort verleihen, wo die Wirklichkeit nichts davon bietet.

A chi gli chiedeva reminiscenze della sua gioventù, il professore rispondeva che non può esserci niente del genere e che i ricordi, a differenza delle calcografie e delle lettere, non riportano una data. Le cose si conservano nella memoria e solo con la riflessione una persona riesce a sistemarle in un ordine temporale.

Un po' di pioggia non ha mai fatto male a nessuno, disse Mario. La pioggia fa male a tutti, disse Carlos. Può anche uccidere. Ne aveva già uccisi molti.

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Downsiders," said the clown, "never look up.

If you can keep your head while all those about you are losing theirs, then perhaps you have misunderstood the situation.

The critical point is that knowing we can always get higher can be a real downer. It informs us that we are never going to reach the ultimate point of happiness because there is no ultimate point of happiness.

sixteenth-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne. He once quipped, "My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy." You have to love those words "very miserable"; Schopenhauer could not be content with simply saying "unhappy" as Epicurus did.

Epicurus said something similar when he wrote, "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.

Many African Americans, Hispanics, and women read Scripture through Third World eyes, and this presents a deep challenge to First World readers, who all too often expect Scripture to endorse their comfortable, middle-class way of life.

In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

They teach children that all opinions are equally valid. But this is simply not true. When you work for someone, be they an employer or customer, your view is not as valid or important as theirs. Period. If your view is as valid as your bosses, why should you listen to them?

Find what you want in what you have and happiness will be assured.

Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.

What is suffering? The desire for things to be other than they are. What is contentment? Accepting everything as it is.