Quotes About Perspective

with than the person who actually lived.

La felicidad puede depender tan fácilmente de las cosas útiles como de las inútiles.

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born homo sapiens.

So you choose to measure by the only standard that allows your life to be meaningless?

Children never do understand their own childishness. Then

you never knew why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even knew themselves. Nobody understands anybody.

Metaphorical flavor doesn't influence reality," said the expendable.

It was wrong of me to value my own pain so highly that I thought it gave me the right to inflict more on him.

We never hated Grego," said Olhado. "I should have known," said Miro. "I knew he was suffering the worst pain of any of us, but it never occurred to me . . ." "Don't blame yourself," said Ender. "It's the kind of thing that only a stranger can see.

as you look up at these towering mound-people

We're businessmen, Chubs. The moral high ground is wherever we set it.

But the sky only seems to be far away from you,' said Master Han, when she told him this. 'Actually it is all around you. You breathe it in and you breathe it out, even when you labor with your hands in the mud.

That's what it means to be married. You fight all the time, but you never fight about what you think you're fighting about.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.