Quotes About Perspective

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

a year and an instant is equivalent in a monotonous life

Reality is a fiction with an unlimited budget.

Nothing more private than pain. It can only involve one. But who? Who is "I" in "I hurt"? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it? And does "hurt" refer to the inflicting or the suffering?

Who is "I" in "I hurt"? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it? And does "hurt" refer to the inflicting or the suffering?

It is better to be envied than pitied.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men.

I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

And I'm different without you. You're the only one who thinks you're never different.

They all fired into the air, no doubt about it, said the old man with the fur cap, but it was the air that happened to be in people's lung.

Het landschap van onze kindertijd laat sporen achter voor onze blik op het landschap gedurende de volgende jaren.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

There are too many people who consider themselves far too important. And yet not one of us is anything but a grain of sand in the desert, a speck of dust in the universe.

We have all the time in the world. We once complained about being over-scheduled; now we're thrilled to bits if there's something to jot down other than a doctor's appointment.

Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.

Men are blind in their own cause.