Quotes About Perspective

Maya Angelou once passed on to me: "I'm convinced that the negative has power—and if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over," she said. "Those negative words climb into the woodwork, into the furniture, and the next thing you know, they're on your skin. A negative statement is poison.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

En realidad nadie sabe que está viviendo el momento más feliz de su vida mientras lo vive.

If I see my city as beautiful and bewitching, then my life must be so too.

It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it. Had I known, had I cherished this gift, would everything have turned out differently?

I'm a dog, and because you humans are much less rational beasts than I, you're telling yourselves, 'Dogs don't talk.' Nethertheless, you seem to believe a story in which corpses speak and characters use words they couldn't possibly know. Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

no one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it

Like most Turkish men of my world who entered into this predicament, I never paused to wonder what might be going on in the mind of the woman with whom I was madly in love, and what her dreams might be; I only fantasized about her.

Many men believe that no life is determined in advance, that all stories are essentially a chain of coincidences. And yet, even those who believe this come to the conclusion, when they look back, that events they once took for chance were really inevitable.

YaÅŸad???m?z hayat?n bir baÅŸkas?n?n düÅŸü olduÄŸunu kan?tlaman?n hiçbir ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeyeceÄŸini biliyordum art?k.

Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?

Hayat?m?n en mutlu an?ym??, bilmiyordum. [...] Herkes bilsin, çok mutlu bir hayat yaÅŸad?m.

Çünkü bir baÅŸkas?n?n belleÄŸini a??r a??r edinmekten baÅŸka neydi ki okumak?

Tidak cukup hanya menjadi pihak yang tertindas, kau juga harus menjadi pihak yang benar, karena sebagian besar orang yang tertindas dapat dipandang salah dari nyaris semua sudut pandang.

Razlika izme?u ?oveka kome se dopada da neprestano sanja da je Napoleon i ?oveka koji za sebe misli da je Napoleon, jeste razlika izme?u sre?nog sanjara i nesre?nog šizofreni?ara.

Even if you're not happy"—here, she indicated my brother with her eyes—"even when you're having your worst day you live your life as if you are. All sorrows fade away when you're surrounded by your family.

Ä°ÅŸte bu doÄŸru. Burada, Türkiye'de insan hiçbir ÅŸeye akl?yla inanamaz.

Zaman, bilindiÄŸi üzere, bazen kuÅŸ gibi gider, bazen sümüklü böcek gibi ilerler; ama insan?n en çok hoÅŸland??? onun çabuk mu yavaÅŸ m? geçtiÄŸini farketmemesidir.

Don't let rich people make you feel ashamed. The only difference between us and them is that they got to Istanbul first and started making money before we did.

Because Anna Karenina could not read the novel she held in her hands, we read Anna Karenina the novel.

the place we return to is never the same place we left.

We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.

Eskileri bir bütün içinde sanmak eskiler kadar eski bir yan?lg?d?r!

Fue a lo largo de aquellos cuatro años cuando aprendí que la vida no es una espera sino algo que se puede disfrutar.