Quotes About Perspective

All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own.

Att vara ett folk är inte bara en fråga om hur man ser på sig själv . Vad andra utanför gruppen tycker är också viktigt. Identitet, som vi lärde oss i det första kapitlet, är en överenskommelse mellan insiders och outsiders.

Once, after lecturing before the Malaysia Art Council, I was asked by an English curator, during the question period, why all Chinese paintings look alike. I replied that the reason was the same why Orientals, when first coming to the West, are unable to differentiate between the various European nationalities - lack of exposure and not being familiar enough with the subject to know where and how to look for the variations and telling characteristics.

Crees que la duración del tiempo es un problema?-dijo ella en tono adulto-. El tiempo que he estado contigo ha sido corto, pero muy, muy feliz. Tan feliz que no podía serlo más. Seguro que he sido más feliz que nadie en este mundo. Incluso en estos momentos... Con eso basta. Una vez hablamos de eso, ¿te acuerdas? De que lo que hay, aquí y ahora, seguirá existiendo eternamente.

Pues yo, cuando leo que los cristianos dicen que la muerte es hermosa y que no hay por qué temerla, me indigno. Me parece algo estúpido y arrogante. La muerte no es hermosa. Es patética y vacía. Y tenemos que aceptarlo.

Yo también sufría, pero mi dolor no era más que un vano intento de experimentar el suyo.

I wish I could send everyone in America to live under the dictatorship in Turkmenistan. Or to spend a little time in a New Delhi slum. Maybe they'd gain a little perspective about how good they have it. But I can't. So instead, they'll listen to politicians tell them how they're getting screwed. Or the media telling them about all the things that can kill them. Or some YouTube influencer showing off their fake idyllic life.

nothing had changed in the years apart.

I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears. It doesn't matter how many times you do it.

People frequently claim to be going insane. But I've never heard somebody say they were going sane. Perhaps its because sanity isn't a desirable destination.

When you're old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?

People frequently claim to be going insane. But I've never heard somebody say they were going sane. Perhaps it's because sanity isn't a desirable destination.

When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless.

It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

we must never lose sight of that gaze with which we look at things.

It is possible to see God's will in every circumstance and to accept it with singing instead of complaining.

If all of life were sunshine, Our face would long to gain And feel once more upon it The cooling splash of rain. Henry Jackson Van Dyke

Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original remark.

Light skin, dark skin, my Asian persuasion/ I got them all that's why these girls out here hatin'" —JANET JACKSON

you're so blinded by the perfect vision of what you want that you can't appreciate the gift you have right in front of you.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

Even when we're apart, we'll be looking at the same sky!