Quotes About Perspective

I am writing all this down in full knowledge that it will not now seem important, for the reason that that is just what marks off that past from our present. Everything was then of importance. Everything enjoyable had an equal value. In life we were not divided. Life itself was not divided.

Reading a few books can be helpful in pointing the direction - but again, these are all just fingers, fingers pointing to the moon.

There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage we carry with us for a single thought, some for years, and some for lifetimes. But there isn't one piece that isn't our own creation.

We're turning into a geriatric society. The old are fighting back. They have the great advantage of an irresistible recruitment programme. It's called living.

How can someone be wise who isn't even remotely happy?

Having everythin is boring; I'm convinced of that. Once you have something - knowledge, skills, possessions - or have achieved something - climbing Mount Everest, for example - it becomes banal.

Te?, po válce, se vÅ¡ak sebeobÄ›tování cení výÅ¡e než umÄ›ní pÃ…â"¢ežít.

The higher I climb, the deeper I understand my fears; the bigger the mountain, the clearer the view I have of my own existence.

Nepat?kam?m atmi??m piemita kut kas labs: t?s atg?din?ja, ka esi bijis laim?gs, ja ar? pirms mirk?a v?l dom?ji, ka t?ds neesi. Laim?gam b?t ir realat?vs j?dziens. Kurš to apjautis reti j?tas gluži nelaim?gs. /The Night in Lisabon/

inside this prison he lived in freedom

Vivre les malheurs d'avance, c'est les subir deux fois. Le moment présent était un moment de joie, il ne fallait pas l'empoisonner.

Il ne faut pas comprendre, il faut voir. Paris vous guérira. PARIS VOUS GUÉRIRA DU PASSÉ !

Self-pity" is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.

The walls that might make others feel like they are suffocating have become my lungs.

Your worst dungeon might be the room with the most windows.

The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.

practically every word ever written about Jesus of Nazareth, including every gospel story in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, was written by people who, like Stephen and Paul, never actually knew Jesus when he was alive (recall that, with the possible exception of Luke, the gospels were not written by those after whom they were named).

The Jesus that is uncovered in the process may not be the Jesus we expect; he certainly will not be the Jesus that most modern Christians would recognize. But in the end, he is the only Jesus that we can access by historical means. Everything else is a matter of faith.

Muhammad may have been, there is one detail that should not be lost in the tumult and confusion

It is simply up to the individual to decide what "the One" is: how it should be defined, and how it should be experienced

Ones Turd smells the same be of Servant or Prince (English Translation)

Nos adiestran durante demasiado tiempo en la estupidez y al final se nos convierte en una segunda naturaleza, decía Marcelo, me dice Renzi. Lo primero que pensamos siempre está mal, decía, es un reflejo condicionado. Hay que pensar en contra de sí mismo y vivir en tercera persona.