Quotes About Perspective

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love...

I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage

he observed that it was strange how differently wine took different men – some grew glum and fault-finding, some quarrelsome or tearful; for his part he found it did not affect him at all, except perhaps to make him like people rather more, and to make the world seem a more cheerful place. 'Not that it could be much more cheerful than it is already,' he added

have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep: perhaps the poor man and the wakeful man have some great moral advantage. How does it arise?

What private lives the young led, he reflected, how very much apart: their happiness how widely independent of circumstance.

It has been said that in the "Jeune fille à la mandoline" Picasso was getting the best of several worlds, and certainly he makes use both of immediate and of remote symbols in what even the most sullen and dogged opponents of Cubism confess to be a

the saint told her that more tears were shed over prayers that were granted than ever were shed over prayers that were refused.

Gómez de la Serna illustrates this with a dialogue between a critic and a sage: Critic: It is true that these pictures do not displease my eye; but since I do not understand them, I cannot like them. Sage: What did you have for lunch? Critic: Oysters. Sage: Do you like oysters? Critic: Passionately. Sage: Do you understand oysters?

Perhaps I am no great judge of what is honourable, sir,' said Dillon. 'I speak as a mere fighting man.

you cannot expect old heads on young shoulders;

Our beliefs are the lens through which we see the world. They are the glasses we put on in the morning, which provide the patterns we see. As we become more self-aware, we can identify our patterns, and then, to the extent we desire, change our lenses.

frame is a mystery.

And I am both appalled and put off by those who use "civilians" to describe citizens. All of us, police and non-police, are civilians. Unless you are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, i.e., in the armed forces, you are a civilian. Soap box mode off.)

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

The world is what YOU think of it, so think of it DIFFERENTLY and your life will change.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

You never know," said Raistlin with a glance at the kitchen. "People change.

Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.

It made her sad to realise that in spite of their so often having the same reactions, the same feelings, they never would reach the same conclusions, because their respective aims in life were almost diametrically opposed.

Whoever invented the concept of fairness, anyway? Isn't everything easier if you simply get rid of the idea of justice altogether? You think the quantity of pleasure, the degree of suffering is constant among all men?

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with one of his basic beliefs: that a man must at all costs keep some part of himself outside and beyond life. If he should ever for an instant cease doubting, accept wholly the truth of what his senses conveyed to him, he would be dislodged from the solid ground to which he clung and swept along with the current, having lost all objective sense, totally involved with existence.

One can only worry so much, however; then one becomes philosophical. I suppose philosophy is merely sublimated worry.

Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to this liking.