Quotes About Perspective

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.

Things are never absolute; they depend on each individual's perceptions.

No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear', said her father, looking at the clock. 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

If I accept it, rather than fight against it, things might change. I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Bí quy?t c?a h?nh phúc là bi?t ng?m nhìn m?i th? tuy?t m? trên th? gian này mà không h? quên hai gi?t d?u trên muá»—ng.

When we are on high (Mountain), we can see everything else as small. Our glory and our sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is , and how wide its horizons.

The world speaks many languages, the boy thought

I ask myself how I can exist in two such different worlds in one day.

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

There can be no meaningful change if we choose to look down at the arena of anguish from thirty thousand feet.

My mother always said a steady diet of scary bad news was just a right-wing plot to make people afraid to trust one another, and I used to laugh, but I think maybe she was right.

You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage—and indeed perhaps more.

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much! (Buck, 57)

I believe in the equality of man and woman," Rulan insisted. "Ah," Madame Wu said, "two equals are nevertheless not the same two things. They are equal in importance, equally necessary to life, but not the same

I think not everyone can see the whole picture. It has long been said we each see what we look for. You and I, we look at land and think of seed and harvests. A builder looks at the same land and thinks of houses, and a painter of its colors. The priest sees men only as those who need to be saved, and so naturally he sees most clearly those who need to be saved.

It was in those days that I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

But the important lesson which he taught me was that if one would be happy he must not raise his head above his neighbor's. "He who raises his head above the heads of others," Mr. Kung said, "will sooner or later be decapitated.

there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

and looked sharply across the street. There was only one house

You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad.