Quotes About Perspective

There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp.

I know what you are thinking about', said Tweedledum: 'but it isn't so, nohow.' 'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be: but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

He had turned the loss of his virginity into a campaign, when all it took was a few sous and five minutes of his time. (pg 21)

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

I belong to the tribe of the grasshopper, not that of the ant.

To the uninformed observer, the agonizing cramps in a marathon runner's calf muscles are heroic while the relentless explosions of a dominatrix's paddle against her client's bottoms are obscene and perverted. That the two victims might confront their ordeals for similar reasons, and take away similar benefits, has rarely been considered. Grant Antrews, Submissions

In principle new points of view are not as a rule discovered in territory that is already known, but in out-of-the-way places that may even be avoided because of their bad name. C.G. Jung, Synchronicity[26]

In all of these cases, someone can act as a CCO not because he has studied contemporary culture but because he comes from that culture. He knows it in his bones.

Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.

He slipped the gold fob-watch out of his waistcoat, flicked open the cover and stared at the dial. The Cat had replaced the conventional numbers with a series of symbols, which stood for 'food', 'sex', 'snooze', 'light snooze', 'heavy snooze', 'major sleep', 'self-adoration hour', 'preening' and 'bathtime'. Right now, it was twenty past sex, or, to put it another way, quarter to food.

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

A wise man makes his own decisions. An ignorant man follows public opinion.

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right

As the Grateful Dead said, and writers' can attest to: Sometimes the light is shining on me, other times I can barely see; but lately, its occurred to me-What A Long Strange Trip Its Been.

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

The asteroid was longer on the inside than it was on the outside. The seventh chamber went on forever.

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side. Not in this case. In this case, assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's liberating. But we also know it's not an easy concept. -He's not just into you

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

One man"s tool is another man's weapon. - Bruce Wayne

Actually, now I no longer think of myself as American. Rather, I now think of myself as an American who is living globally. A global citizen. A citizen of the world. It makes me feel as if my perspective has broadened. It is much more expansive and inclusive.

she believed that houses were meant to be thought of as vehicles – physically fixed, but logically mobile

Rakesh said, 'What do the Aloof think we can do with this, that they can't do themselves?' 'Give a damn?' Parantham suggested.