Quotes About Perspective

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

Our family never had any hard luck, because nothing seemed hard luck to it, nor was it ever disgraced for there was nothing which it would acknowledge as disgrace.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!'

Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.

I'm at the age when food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

Skeptics are never deceived.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

For God's sake, let us freely hear both sides!