Quotes About Perspective

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

But I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

I don't know what I'd been expecting. You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster.

if you argue for your limitations they are yours

The world is a dream, you say, and it's lovely, sometimes. Sunset. Clouds. Sky." "No. The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?

For most gulls it was not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

Si nuestra amistad depende de cosas como el espacio y el tiempo, entonces, cuando por fin superemos el espacio y el tiempo, habremos destruido nuestra propia hermandad! Pero supera el espacio, y nos quedará sólo un Aquí. Supera el tiempo, y nos quedará sólo un Ahora. Y entre el Aquí y el Ahora, ¿no crees que podremos volver a vernos un par de veces?

Why is it," Jonathan puzzled, "that the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free, and that he can prove it for himself if he'd just spend a little time practicing? Why should that be so hard?

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.

Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.

There was part of me listening that didn't think what I said was fiction. I was making up a true story.

Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them

Everything above may be wrong!

Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.