Quotes About Perspective

I think we're all bad judges of what goes on in other people's minds about God, Mr. Smith. It's a bad thing to force a God on a man who doesn't want one. It's worse to stand in the way of a man who wants one badly.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

novelists only Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jorge Luis Borges have

Braque and James Joyce, they are the incomprehensibles whom anybody can understand

A man looks pretty small at a wedding

Life affords no second chances," he thought. "Is this what growing older is—seeing always more clearly the things we failed to see?

Thornton Wilder

You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life. . . . It's what they call a vicious circle.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

The East is more inductive, while the West is more deductive.

I suppose it seems ignoble to you that a great oak of a man should go about the world like a blind man about an empty house merely because a chit of a girl has been withdrawn from it. No, no, you cannot understand this, my adored one, but I understand and grow pale...You will laugh at me, but I think he goes about the hemispheres to pass the time between now and his old age.

Para el puro, todo es puro; para el ruin todo es ruin.

Os instrutores previnem constantemente os seus discípulos contra o erro de omitir o outro lado de cada questão.

So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In the end, what matters is what remains.

We all begin with a story of ourselves that we believe to be true. But perhaps true personal change, even healing, can only happen when we change that narrative, when we begin to tell ourselves and others a different story. Surely

It doesn't matter, sister. Too much thinking is bad for health. Now come on, let us sell a few more carrots and brinjals. This is who we are, not poets or philosophers.

She thought of the self-help books preaching the importance of gratitude that millions of Americans bought each year. How many of them could muster gratitude for a cup of tea?

Women create, Bhima thinks, men destroy. The way of the world.

me up," she mumbled. "She didn't say who. I just assumed . . ." She took in the bemused way he was looking at her. "I'm sorry." He shook his head. "No, it's okay. Why sorry? Nothing wrong

Ma used to say: When the God enter into your house, he not enter looking like the God. He enter looking like human being. God enter my life looking like Maggie.

Nuestros problemas no surgen porque los otros no sean lo que pensamos que eran, sino porque erróneamente pensamos que eran algo que no son.

If we frame a situation in terms of 'us versus them,' and claim our side is right because we care for the general welfare of society, while theirs is wrong, then our motivation is almost identical to theirs!...We must try to develop compassion for all parties involved in a conflict because each of them wishes to be happy and to avoid problems.