Quotes About Perspective

For each one of us lives in his microcosm, the solidity of this world is a mere game of mirrors, there can be no absolute existence for what is apprehended differently by all.

Rainbows apologize for angry skies.

He wrote how he "needed to be by himself, so he could miss her, to get some perspective

We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.

Don't be hostage to your expectations, she would teach. Sometimes trauma doesn't look the way you think it should.

A police officer who does not believe there is such a crime as rape can arrive at only one determination

Your love will last forever, If you do not expect her to walk the same path, But you look in the same direction.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

the secret to happiness is counting your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

I'm a half-empty kind of girl.

Da Vinci said, "A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light." And so, perhaps, if this day were a painting, I would begin with black. Mermaid Tears By the time Avery woke up, I was sick of painting.

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

Nothing has meaning except for the meaning you give it.

It's simple. Your field of focus determines what you find in life.

Daddy always said that days had to be embraced, enjoyed, used. Otherwise, they would multiply into months and years that would mock you from afar –

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.