Quotes About Perspective

A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Those obsessed with health are not healthy: the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.

History ain't what it is. It's what some writer wanted it to be.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

No volume of history is insignificant, even the worst chapters. Especially the worst chapters.

Then, Sir, you would reduce all history to no better than an almanack, a mere chronological series of remarkable events.

An historian is an unsuccessful novelist.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Physically, our home is small and the rest of the world is large — but in our hearts, it's the other way around.

People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is convex or concave should be doomed to not think of anything else, and so miss the other ninety-five percent of life.

Then there's the one about the fellow who complained of the excessive heat the other day, when the thermometer read 90. "It isn't hot, brother," comforted a war correspondent just back from Ethiopia, "until the chair gets up when you do!"

When a person is accustomed to 138 in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.... when they said it was now "cold weather," I saw that they had traveled outside of their sphere of knowledge and were floundering. I believe that in India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

...there was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

Thank God for dirty dishes, they have a tale to tell; while others may go hungry, we're eating very well.

Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side.

We were not many, and the world was very small. There were strange lands to the east- islands like Akutan; so we thought all the world was islands, and did not mind.

Life was to him like strong, white light that hurts the tired eyes of a sick person.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.

You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his own satisfaction.

Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live

but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.