Quotes About Perspective

She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them.

Story of O is one of those books which marks the reader, which leaves him not quite, or not at all, the same as he was before he read it.

She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, Oh, the book is better.

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.