Quotes About Perspective

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

Memory is so subjective. We all remember in a visceral, emotional way, and so even if we agree on the facts—what was said, what happened where and when—what we take away and store from a moment, what we feel about it, can vary radically.

All I know is that I am the product of all the experiences I have had, good and bad, and if I am in a happy place in my life (as I truly am), then I can have no regrets about any of the combination of events and circumstances that have led me to the here and now.

And so I have grown up wanting to feel secure when it comes to money, but doing so by treating it as something to be enjoyed, shared, and not given power.

Life is pain management and a slow march towards death, but here's to having fun while we're marching!

neither money nor my work define me. I like them, they allow me to do many things I enjoy, but if I did not have them, I know I would be able to find something else to do, I would be able to survive, I could be happy. Sometimes

If that was your reality, I think you'd have a completely different attitude about the value of life, including your own. Mostly,

Why do we testify only from the moutaintops?

I have come to realise that no one sees the world quite the way you do. Even with a great deal of shared experience there is always a shift of a few degrees in perspective, and no one's pain is ever the same as yours.

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

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When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

How we see ourselves and what we base our worth on are primary motivators throughout life.

We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.

Theer's no use saying pigs conner fly, when you see them catching swallows.

That man's gaga," said Roger when they were out of hearing. "He's so far gone he's coming back.

What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn't so sure myself anymore.

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

What story does the picture tell?" Lieutenant Tanaka had said to Hideki. "That's what I'm always asking myself. Not just what's happening in the photograph I take, but what happened before it was taken, and what will happen afterward. How you frame a photo says everything about the story you're trying to tell.

But I was beginning to see how she must have thought she was doing something good for us, even though she was wrong.

Silly to you, maybe. All reasons are silly to someone else, and we think the challenges to the books already removed are silly. What makes one person's reason any sillier than another person's reason?

This is what it must feel like to be an ant among elephants , Akira thought. The giant sequoias made her feel small and insignificant, but in a good way. They reminded her that she wasn't at the center of the universe. That there were things that were far older and bigger than she was.