Quotes About Perspective

Perception is reality, because that is their truth.

Sometimes I wish I could tell my younger self that. That it didn't matter. That the body I had then carried me up hills at Cross Country meets and through the water during the painful last lap at a swim meet, and that it should be celebrated instead of being picked away at and filled with hunger pangs. I should have gotten both the popcorn and the box of candy at the movies that night, instead of slipping away at a Diet Coke from the concession stand.

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If that idea of the meaningful is dropped, then you will see meaning in whatever you are doing in daily life.

The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty.

Today, if you are not confused, you are just not thinking clearly.

I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist.

When once we are freed from the goal [of solving problems], the question of whether it is a positive approach or a negative approach does not even arise.

Nobody knows anything about life and there is NO point in defining life.

We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.

One must accept that death is a part of life, even the most terrible death. And do we not live a whole life every day, and does it then make any great difference if we live a few days more or less? -Anita Goldman

Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.

Whatever is true is true, but not all truths are necessary truths. It is true that adding two pebbles to two pebbles makes four pebbles; but adding two drops of water to two drops can make one pool (Piaget, 1967d, p. 582). What this means is that the action of adding actual objects together can have alternative outcomes; the sum of adding two and two can be other than four – that is a real possibility, and no contradiction arises from this.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.

Chiar dac? Dumnezeu nu exist?, s? tr?im ca ?i cum ar exista.

Seek first to understand, then and only then to be understood.

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

It will do no good to argue if you're in the wrong, & if you're right--you don't need to.