Quotes About Perspective

Postoje akademske formalnosti koje se ne mogu zapostaviti, ?ak i kad je ?ovjek zauzet drugim stvarima, kao što je pokušaj da ostane živ.

It was amazing how love—or was it just passion?—had destroyed her objectivity and neutered her common sense.

Sometme later that afternoon I met a friend who was covered in gray dust and limping. I noticed he had a few small cuts on his hands, too. I asked him if he was okay and he said, "I'm walking and talking . . . I'm not bitching about anything." In retrospect, that seemed to sum up the attitude of people at Ground Zero who survived when the buildings collapsed. They might have some injuries but they had perspective.

When you have wholeheartedly accepted one vision of reality, it is very difficult to have that reality challenged, then replaced by another.

Didn't understand the nation's habit of clubbing itself each morning with a list of tragedy and doom before trying to go cheerfully into the day. Like arsenic, it had to have a cumulative effect.

We will discover, to our surprise, that we are all mentally ill. Our worst mental illness is not insanity. That is certainly a horrible sickness that we would wish on no one, but in comparison to other mental illnesses, it is at least "innocent". Our first mental illness is called unbelief. ... Unbelief is a kind of mental atrophy, an inability to see anything beyond and above our own minds.

with. In a very real sense, we do not see the world — we see what our brain tells us we see.

Elderly people reach out and hold the hand of people who speak to them. Imagine holding hands while we argue. Our life will be different.

In the Middle East, optimism is a virtue; realism – a duty.

Happy person is one who knows how to bridge the gap between dreams and reality.

People are so preoccupied with the pursuit of happiness that they ignore their little everyday blessings.

SOMETIMES BEING TOO CLOSE TO THE GOALS WE SEEK IN LIFE CAUSES US TO HAVE LESS A DESIRE TO ENJOY THE TRUE IMPORTANCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE ITSELF. eg. MOST PEOPLE LIVING CLOSE TO THE NIAGARA FALLS SEEM TO VISIT IT LESS, BUT WILL QUICKLY CARRY SOME VISITOR TO SEE IT.

All human activity suddenly seemed to me composed of such sport: We each chose the game we thought would yield the most for us and our own. We gambled, gambled selfishly, gambled more than we could afford, the odds staggeringly stacked in somebody else's favor.

It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)

There is one God, and it is not my God but yours.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

Then let's treat all these holy texts as stories, fictions, and imperfections that could excite us to tears or erections.

We spend vast amounts of time and energy crafting a thesis in our heads of how life should play out. Then Almighty God spends an incredibly brief amount of time blowing our thesis to bits.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.