Quotes About Perspective

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

You know what the hardest thing is? What nobody wants to understand -- is me. People want their memories of me to be my memories of me. But you know what? They're not.

Far from minimizing biblical truth, metaphors serve as magnifying glasses that identify truth we might otherwise miss.

Don't take life TOO serious you can't get out alive anyhow.

Przecie? nie piszemy historii. Piszemy o pami?taniu.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

Your great spirits are mere Jack-a-lanterns in the brain, they dance about, shine and make vagaries—while those who possess happiness, soberly and quietly enjoy their treasure.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

From bitter experience she knew that pictures thrown on the screen of her imagination could seem much more unnerving and terrible than the actual facts.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Wer ungeduldig ist, verkürzt die Zeit, die er zum Leben hat.

I tell you what, sometimes you get so obstinate you have to be gently forced to see where your happiness lies.

Aristotle formulated the same point in more sober terms when he said that, that which sees becomes colored itself, so to speak, :and that the reality of the perceived and the reality of the perceiving are identical.

Everything you look at can be turned into a story ... you can make a tale of everything you touch.

Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.