Quotes About Perspective

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper perspective.

The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

Because they were both young, she was intolerant and he was stubborn.

Women are almost always angry with us for one reason or another. It's one of the things you'll have to get used to as you get older.

Sorgan tried his very best not to think about how long it must have taken for a stream that small to eat its way down through solid rock to form its current bed. Sorgan knew exactly what the word "hundred" meant, but when numbers wandered off toward "thousand"—or even "million"—and the people who used those terms were talking about years, Sorgan's mind shied back in horror.

These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they? Longbow smiled faintly. They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I'm not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

Men's minds ran to straight lines, but women thought more in terms of circles.

Everything is idiocy if you choose to look at it in the proper light, he replied philosophically.

Until a person learns to laugh at himself, though, his life will be a tragedy – at least that's the way he'll see it.

In your view, evil's no more than a disagreement about the way things are supposed to be.

Since there was absolutely nothing he could do about his circumstances, chewing on them would only leave a sour taste in his mouth.

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

Somos turistas en este mundo.

Una de ellas era la reinterpretación, es decir, tratar de entender la situación más positivamente. En el caso de los conflictos, eso implica cambiar nuestra creencia de que un conflicto es como una pelea de box, como se muestra en la ilustración 48.

Más bien, hay que ver el conflicto como una gran oportunidad. Como un tesoro que está en la cima de una pared de piedra. Pero la única forma de ganar ese tesoro es subiendo en equipo con la otra parte del conflicto como

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they'd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt's complete absence. They have forgotten.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

Capital T-truth is about life before death.

It is within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things. Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: the only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

David Foster Wallace

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.

That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that they remember events of social importance, they remember only for example 'where they were' when such-and-such occurred. Et cetera et cetera. Objective events and data become naturally more and more subjectively colored.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.