Quotes About Perspective

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

My wife said to me recently that she hates couples who finish each other's sentences for them. I agreed that it was annoying, but it made me think that perhaps we were missing out on something, so now every time she says anything, I say 'full stop' at the end. I have been doing it for a full week now, and it has really kept the romance alive.

Andy had been a good friend, and a good human being. Someone who was loyal, and upbeat, and funny. You think if you're not in touch with someone, everything is probably okay with them. Life just ticks along. They do the same things as you. They grow up. They meet a girl. Maybe they get married. They progress in their work. Perhaps they get into IT, or move abroad, or have a kid. Maybe they get rich, maybe they stay poor. But you never, ever think, that maybe they're dead.

The turning point for effective communication is actually hearing what is being said, rather than hearing what you want to hear instead.

Belief is just the place of understanding you are at the moment. Without an open mind, you will be standing in that one spot forever.

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Estoy convencido que hay dos tipos de personas que pasan por este mundo. Los que se divierten y aquellos que sienten que la vida es una gran fiesta y no les llegó la invitación.

Si no bendices tu realidad y das gracias por este momento, nunca podrás casarte con tu sueño».

La mujer tiende a ver la magnitud de un problema, mientras que el hombre los minimiza al extremo.

Lo determinante que tienes que comprender como varón, es que cuando la mujer te hace una pregunta indirecta, no está comenzando a juzgarte, sino que el juicio ya concluyó y resultaste claramente condenado, solo ha venido a comunicártelo de manera indirecta para que cuando reacciones, ella pueda comprobar que sentenció en forma correcta.

Es increíble que una persona que acaba de entrar en tu vida pueda demostrarte más sentimientos que otras personas que han estado ahí siempre…

Estimados caballeros, por nuestra salud mental y emocional, debemos saber que ellas no hablan como nosotros, nunca quieren decir lo que están diciendo, y entenderlas lleva algunos años de entrenamiento; es casi como aprender otro idioma.

Never compare, thats the key for happyness. Learn from others but dont compare yourself to them, make your way and appreciate it.

You dont allways chose what happens to you, but only you can allways chose your attitude. Attitude is your ultimate life tool, sharpen it because you will need it.

on n'est pas forcément du pays où l'on est né. Il y a des grains que le vent aime semer ailleurs.

Si on attend tout de lui, on se contente finalement de peu. La moindre surprise est accueillie comme un miracle.

Alors qu'au Nord, la vie est rythmée par des saisons très contrastées ou tout se joue : les émotions comme l'économie. À chaque nouvelle saison, on a l'impression d'habiter une nouvelle ville. Elle nous entraîne dans une farandole : de nouveaux habits, un nouveau discours (on parle de chose différente d'une saison à l'autres), un nouveau sport, nouveaux débats politiques, une nouvelle cuisine. La vie est différente à chaque nouvelle saison.

Sebbene lo Stato si ostini a dare un nome alle strade, la gente stabilisce i propri punti di riferimento in maniera del tutto autonoma. Una chiesa, una casa abbandonata, un parco, un edificio pubblico, uno stadio, un cimitero: qualunque cosa può andare bene. Ognuno insomma finisce per inventarsi una sua personale mappa urbana.

I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this "condition" affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, he said. Time does not heal and history is not progressive.

And Greg,' she said, turning her face up to him, 'it's stupid and childish, and utterly ridiculous for you to be jealous of my mother! You've never seen that I can love anyone else without detracting from my love for you. I suppose because you had no family of your own, you can't see that love isn't like that - it has no limits, it just stretches to accommodate more people all the time, and it doesn't become thinner in the process, only deeper and richer...

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.