Quotes About Perspective

Neil: Were you strapped to a Saturn V rocket, with nine million pounds of thrust, and sent a quarter-million miles away into deep space to witness Earthrise from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve? Madalyn: No. Neil: Then shut the fuck up.

En otras palabras, después de las leyes de la física, lo demás es una opinión.

Views of Earth from space transform global perspectives for the better, I would say. But evaluating and judging individual humans from a distance hardly ever ends well. The brush strokes with which we paint and characterize the views of others tend to be broad and without nuance, leaving us susceptible to bigotry and prejudice.

Personal truths have the power to command your mind, body, and soul, but are not evidence-based. Personal truths are what you're sure is true, even if you can't—especially if you can't—prove it. Some of these ideas derive from what you want to be true. Others take shape from charismatic leaders or sacred doctrines, either ancient or contemporary. For some, especially in monotheistic traditions, God and Truth are synonymous. The Christian Bible says so:2

A perspectiva cósmica nos lembra que no espaço, onde não há ar, uma bandeira não tremula - um indício de que talvez agitar bandeiras e explorar o espaço não conbinam.

?wiat nie ma obowi?zku by? dla ciebie zrozumia?ym.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines…every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Perspektywa kosmiczna przypomina nam, ?e w przestrzeni pozaziemskiej, gdzie nie ma powietrza, flaga nie zaÅ'opocze Ã¢â'¬â€œ co wydaje siÄ™ wskazówkÄ…, ?e by? mo?e wymachiwanie flagami i eksploracja kosmosu nie idÄ… w parze.

Once Mullah Nasruddin's favorite clock stopped working, so he took it for repair. When the repairperson took the back off the clock and turned it over, a dead fly fell out. "So that's the problem," said Nasruddin. "The little mechanic who operated it has died!

Even the hills and fields are flowing, so why do you feel you're all alone, tears hugging you to yourself ? The world is a tree bowed down with fruit, while you bend over stealing rotten apples.

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

When its 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72. However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and only 72 in Los Angeles.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

In the field, one quickly learns that everything that was funny at age ten is funny all over again.

The underlying cause of most unfulfilled lives is that we are simply too close to ourselves to see clearly enough to get out of our own way.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

Most things are not about you, though they do reveal how you think about yourself.

Death is a guillotine blade hanging over our heads, reminding us every second of every day that this life we treasure so much is no more important to the universe than those of the two hundred thousand insects each of us kills with the front of our car every year.

The secret to life is not to take it personally. The things people do and say are not always

The days and nights spent imprisoned in her house doing nothing were getting to me. I refuse to take time for granted. One

That's when I realized that Tyler Durden wasn't in the community to get laid. He wasn't motivated by sex. He was motivated by power. Papa's

Some people say that time cures all wounds, but I think that time is the wound.