Quotes About Perspective

Like any pendulum worth its weight, received opinion finds it difficult to swing from one extreme position and settle directly in the middle, without first hurtling all the way to the opposite extreme.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

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Then, rather than trying to change others to suit our needs, our choice would be to simply drop this false idea that someone else is responsible for our fulfillment.

Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.

What we think we'll do is often not what we end up doing. It isn't always in our own control, our life.

And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem quite unchanged in all the small surface details of existence where things never really change, men and women being what they are, but how the core, the pulse, the kernel of everything can still have become utterly unlike what it had been before.

It was too bitter a truth even for irony.

And it is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

It was, Jelena though, another kind of arrogance to believe you could understand the way the world was made. It could not be done, there was too much. You needed to be open to it, though, to what your life gave you and demanded.

The world didn't allow you clean, clear judgments very often, it seemed to Daiyan. He envied those who thought otherwise, who lived otherwise.

Perhaps as often as we dream of things we wish might come to be, we dream of what we wish had been otherwise. We are carried forward through time, but our minds take us back.

We are what we are and the world is what it is

We have a need to persuade ourselves we are not at the mercy of the world.

I cannot speak for those who come after, or what the world will be. We are not made that way.

Sometimes the one life we are allowed is enough.

You would not have believed," he said. "You would always have doubted. We needed to grow older, you and I, for me to say this and you to hear it.

Not every man or woman sailing down the river will be a figure of force or significance. Some are merely in the boat with all of us.

It was surprising how easy it was to think about the unthinkable if you'd had a few glasses of wine on a spring night.

Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction." {Guy Gavriel Kay}

He'd stopped permitting himself to be unhappy about it.

The next time you think that there's something that you "can't live without", wait for a week and then see if you're still alive or not

People deserve a break. The stressed and unorganized person who doesn't have the same priorities as you may be dealing with an autistic child, abusive spouse, fading parents, or cancer. Don't judge people until you've walked a mile in their shoes. Give them a break instead.

There are two kinds of people: eaters and bakers. Eaters think the world is a zero-sum game: what someone else eats, they cannot eat. Bakers do not believe that the world is a zero-sum game because they can bake more and bigger pies.