Quotes About Perspective

Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

How often I take for granted the astounding news that God loves me with a callous, "Yeah, yeah, he loves me, now what about God giving me what I want for myself right now?" I can fly right over the stunning surprise of this news. God created me and God loves me. Personally, individually, deeply, eternally, passionately.

Aw, dad... this isn't another one of those "oh, you're LUCKY you didn't have to peck dry corn and uncooked rice off the dirt!" kind of thing is it?

How strange, I thought, that we are able to argue so well against ourselves but so ineffectively _for_ ourselves.

Crawling into the skin of the other (empathy). 'It must be hard to …' 176

_It must have been_ are magical words that say to the _Other_, 'I understand how it was.

The amusements of life, he argued, should be accepted with the same philosophy as its ills. ("The Striding Place")

Benny said, "Oh, I can hardly wait to wash my hands! It has been two days since I've really washed them!" "Funny to hear you say that, Ben," said Henry. "I'm going to take a shower the first thing I do.

All people are made alike - of bones and flesh and dinner - Only the dinners are different.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me.

[Ezra Pound] was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will.

What is the answer? she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: Then, what is the question?

Oh sì, furono giorni infelici, i più felici della mia vita.

One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

I found that the writer who says SUBLATA LUCERNA NULLUM DISCRIMEN INTER MULIERES ('when the lamp is taken away, all women are alike') says true; but without love, this great business is a vile thing.

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.