Quotes About Perspective

Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." —Halford E. Luccock

Everyone is better than you at something. If you have a tough time accepting others, it's probably because you think you're superior to them. However, you're not superior to every person in every way.

Remember that nobodies are the new somebodies.

We're the sort of people who take our own world with us wherever we go

One day you look around and realize everyone in New York is younger than you are.

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it.

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.' He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time.

I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Maud went to college.Sadie stayed at home.Sadie scraped lifeWith a fine-tooth comb.

When you read a poem, you may not get out of it all that the poet put into it, but you are different from the poet. You're different from everybody else who is going to read the poem, so you should take from it what you need. Use it personally.

You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here–through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

Nemcsak az volt tévedés, amiben hittünk valaha, de az is, amiben valaha hinni fogunk.

Az embernek csak ott lehet igaza, ahol éppen található.

Ha ketten gondolják ugyanazt, az nem is hasonló; ha sokan gondolnak hasonlót, az ugyanaz.

The peach-out-of-reach in the adjacent orchard is always more alluring than the apple on the ground in one's own.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

porque las mujeres quieren mucho tiempo después de que han dejado de respetar lo que quieren.

Pienso que las dos versiones son ciertas, adversariamente verdaderas. Se contradicen sólo en el pasado impenetrable y nebuloso de donde surgen, pero se funden y se completan en la simultaneidad del presente, donde puedo entender que todos tenían razón y que la verdad no existe sino en la suma de las razones encontradas, pues la verdad es siempre el resto opaco de las cosas

No se exagera mucho si se dice que, al final de la línea, la historia de México no la han escrito los triunfadores.