Quotes About Perspective

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.

Time is a person-made concept." "Really? Where'd you hear that?" "I made it up." "I don't know if that's true. We all live within time. It rules us." "I use my time how I want, so I rule it.

No. There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don't have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way. You never know what truly would have happened if you had done your shoulds and woulds. Your life might have turned out worse, isn't that possible?

Well, you know, we're born into the world seeing that we're just a little bit… We tend to have things a little bit easier than girls. And we tend to assume therefore that the world was built for us, and that we're, you know, the culmination of everything that came before us. And then we get told that having a little bit of this attitude is called balls, and that balls are good, and we kind of take it from there.

You like simple." "Doesn't everybody?" "Some people thrive on complexity, Craig.

I thought . . . you haven't really lived until you've contemplated suicide. I thought like it would be good to have a reset switch, like on the video games, to start again and see if you could go a different way.

O seu problema é que você tem uma visão de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressão. ? Ned Vizzini, Uma história meio que engraçada

Oh boy, now it looked like a duck

O seu problema é que você tem uma visão de mundo totalmente moldada pela depressão.

She watches him walk outside, through the big doors and into the morning. A big man with a big walk. The world turning like a wheel beneath him.

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.

In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough to think you're right but not enough to know you're wrong

The cosmic perspective shows Earth to be a mote. But it's a precious mote and, for the moment, it's the only home we have.

Imagine a life-form whose brainpower is to ours as ours is to a chimpanzee's. To such a species, our highest mental achievements would be trivial. Their toddlers, instead of learning their ABCs on Sesame Street, would learn multivariable calculus on Boolean Boulevard. Our most complex theorems, our deepest philosophies, the cherished works of our most creative artists, would be projects their schoolkids bring home for Mom and Dad to display on the refrigerator door.

You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook.

The cosmic perspective opens our minds to extraordinary ideas but does not leave them so open that our brains spill out, making us susceptible to believing anything we're told. The

Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all. No judgment implied. Just an observation.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.

If the world is something you accept rather than interpret, then you're susceptible to the influence of charismatic idiots.

The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.

The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.

the stated authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.