Quotes About Perspective

Everything's dead, but good, because it's dead before coming alive, not dead after being alive. That's how I look at it.

perhaps that's the secret. Perhaps what people should really ask is, "are you content?" It's about getting in touch with reality. About balancing aspirations and actuality.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Abraham Maslow observed, "When the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Value, like beauty, may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's nonetheless discussable and mutually appreciated.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The menu is not the meal.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it.

Readers develop unique histories with the books they read. It may not be immediately apparent at the time of reading, but the person you were when you read the book, the place you were where you read the book, your state of mind while you read it, your personal situation (happy, frustrated, depressed, bored) and so on – all these factors, and others, make the simple experience of reading a book a far more complex and multi-layered affair than might be thought.

Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.

Lanark said irritably, "You seem to understand my questions, but your answers make no sense to me." "That's typical of life, isn't it?

Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.

Central to these was and is the claim that it is only possible to understand the dominant moral culture of advanced modernity adequately from a standpoint external to that culture.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.

When you travel, the world comes real and three-dimensional, impossibly vivid