Quotes About Perspective

Her friend had seen eighty summers, she, seventy-five.

Two old women. They complain, never satisfied. We talk of no food, and of how good it was in our days when it really was no better. We think that we are so old. Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world.

La vida es un viaje en paracaídas y no lo que tú quieres creer.

The four cardinal points are three: South and North.

La vida es un viaje en paracaídas y no lo que tú quieres creer.      Vamos cayendo, cayendo de nuestro cenit a nuestro nadir y dejamos el aire manchado de sangre para que se envenenen los que vengan mañana a respirarlo.

Un poeta debe decir aquellas cosas que nunca se dirían sin él.

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

The clever globe-trotting fox learns many things about the world, the local burrowing hedgehog only one: the essential truth that people are people, and learning how to understand and serve them begins at home with those one sees and speaks with face to face.

What is distant is seen as exotic and alluring; what is proximate becomes mundane and ordinary. Saving the world is a much more ambitious, ennobling, and ego-gratifying project than preserving the neighborhood.

Victor Davis Hanson

Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived — not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering. What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger.

Bir insan?n ac? çekmesi, boÅŸ bir odadaki gaz?n davran???na benzer. BoÅŸ bir odaya belli miktarda gaz verildiÄŸi zaman, oda ne kadar büyük olursa olsun, gaz odan?n tamam?na yay?l?r. Dolay?s?yla insan?n çektiÄŸi ac?n?n 'büyüklüÄŸü' kesinlikle görecelidir.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

There is always a patch of blue sky to lovers, although the rest of the world may see nothing but their umbrellas.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.