Quotes About Perspective

The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and by.

By what right does the wolf judge the lion?

Nothing someone says before the word "but" really counts.

Some day you'll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it.

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes.

Um leitor vive mil vidas antes de morrer. O homem que nunca lê vive apenas uma.

It can never happen!"—as well say, "Because I have never broken my leg, my leg is unbreakable," or "Because I've never died, I am immortal.

Nothing makes the past a sweeter place to visit than the prospect of imminent death.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

We look up at the same stars and see such different things.

The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her. "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are.

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

Tyrion shrugged. "We all need to be mocked from time to time Lord Mormont lest we start to take ourselves too seriously.

The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

Power resides where men believe it resides. A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm Mr. Evil?" People do things for what they think are justified reasons. Everybody is the hero of their own story, and you have to keep that in mind. If you read a lot of history, as I do, even the worst and most monstrous people thought they were the good guys. We're all very tangled knots.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes," the Mountain declared. "Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.