Quotes About Perspective

Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state?

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

Certo che per sopportarti non è che bisogna essere imbecilli, però aiuta

Vuoi diventare adulta? E' la cosa più infantile che abbia mai sentito.

Only if we manage to see the universe as a single entity, in which every part reflects the whole and whose great beauty lies precisely in its variety, will we be able to understand exactly who and where we are. Letters agains the war: Letter from Orsigna, 2001.

Mi piace essere in un corpo che ormai invecchia. Posso guardare le montagne senza il desiderio di scalarle. Quand'ero giovane le avrei volute conquistare. Ora posso lasciarmi conquistare da loro. Le montagne, come il mare, ricordano una misura di grandezza dalla quale l'uomo si sente ispirato, sollevato. Quella stessa grandezza è anche in ognuno di noi, ma lì ci è difficile riconoscerla. Per questo siamo attratti dalle montagne.

Nie nale?y os?dza? ?ycia innych ludzi. Nawet je?eli kto? umar? w m?odym wieku na zapalenie j?der, to mo?e jego los w?a?nie w ten sposób si? dope?ni?.

Folco, diese Welt ist ein Wunder! Sie ist ein unglaubliches Wunder! Und wenn du es schaffst, dich als Teil dieses Wunders zu fühlen - nicht das Du mit den zwei Augen und den zwei Füssen, sonderd das DU, Dein innerstes Wesen - was kannst Du dann noch wollen? Hm? Was kannst Du dann noch wollen? Ein neues Auto?

Moi, je voulais comprendre la guerre. Bien sûr, je voulais aussi la voir car je voulais la décrire, mais je me suis rendue compte que ceux qui me tiraient dessus depuis une rangée de palmiers, moi qui m'étais jeté la tête la première dans un fossé pour m'abriter, ces hommes étaient aussitôt devenus mes "ennemies". Mais étaient-ils mes "ennemis" ? Non. Si j'avais continué comme ça tout au long de la guerre, je ne l'aurais jamais comprise. (p. 120)

Il problema è che fino a quando penseremo di avere il monopolio del <>, fino a che parleremo della nostra come LA civiltà, ignorando le altre, non saremo sulla buona strada".

A happiness that comes attached to an if or something else is sadness in disguise, choose to be happy and you will be happy whether poor or rich, small or big.

Most people live sad lives because they have they have succeeded in designing and perfecting a path to sorrow thinking they are building a road to happiness. I will be happy if I befriend or even marry this rich fool, if I buy this worthless tool, if I sit on this corrupted stool, if I drown and kill myself in a debt pool, if I wear this dirty wool, if I ride on this dangerous bull.

Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.

I was giving up-- being realistic , as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

There's no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

In order for us to live comfortably with ourselves while living on unjust terms with others, we have to tell ourselves a story that makes us innocent.

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.

Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer had consequence for you, too.

Everyone is always looking in the wrong direction, we worry about our lovers while losing our jobs we stress out about cancer while our children run away we ponder the stars while burning the earth. Lark used to say the buller we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.

Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything.

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.

Beauty's overrated, Sarah.

In 1998, the New York Times reported that "in the [annual UCLA] survey taken at the start of the fall semester, 74.9 percent of freshmen chose being well off as an essential goal and 40.8 percent chose developing a philosophy. In 1968, the numbers were reversed, with 40.8 percent selecting financial security and 82.5 percent citing the importance of developing a philosophy."4