Quotes About Perspective

My father reminds me that according to Midrash - the ever-evolving commentary upon the Hebrew scriptures - when you arrive in the world as a baby, your hands are clenched, as though to say, Everything is mine. I will inherit it all. When you depart from the world, your hands are open, as though to say, I have acquired nothing from the world.

Every page is a bent version of reality—too unsophisticated to be art but too self-conscious to be mere reportage.

She'd started noticing how the bodies didn't seem so bad anymore. Dead, not talking, not posing any threat, they kind of grew on her in a way the living never had.

Dev realized he'd been wrong about them all along. Cats weren't dogs with Asperger's; they were neurotypical women.

maybe people gave God too many alls to juggle.

In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling.

Es detestable pensar en el público, lo único interesante es pensar en una persona que te escucha.

Como no tengo sueños no me doy de bruces con la realidad. Que funcione un semáforo ya me parece el colmo de los logros humanos

Para hacer buenos negocios solo hay que tener buen ojo, dinero y falta de fe en la inteligencia humana.

Qué cerca está siempre el dolor del placer.

Ningún hijo quiere conocer a fondo a sus padres. Sería demoledor. Todos se creen el primer humano sobre la tierra.

What Marcus Aurelius understood is that all of us are slaves in certain respects, even the emperor of Rome. We are slaves to time and chance; we are indentured to fate. "Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own," he wrote in his Meditations. In another gem, he observed that "it never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

She was never certain how long she wept, and it didn't really matter. It wasn't something to be measured by clocks, cut up into minutes and seconds.

The other side's version," Kolokoltsov thought. Even here, he's not willing to call it "the truth." Whoever said truth is the first casualty of war damned well knew what he was talking about!

That sounds strangely little like justice, Tisipohone jibed gently. On the contrary. Alicia jacked a discarding sabot round into the M-97's chamber and settled her left hand briefly on the forestock to activate its computer systems. I won't do a thing to them unless they intend to do something to me. Indeed? Indeed. But if they do have something planned, I intend to do unto them first. So there are times you see things my way after all. Never said there weren't.

I wish I knew what he called himself. I'm sure that treecats have their own names for themselves." "Me, too," Stephanie agreed, "and I bet they have their own names for us, too. I just hope mine isn't 'Source of Celery.

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.

Treason, my dear, is often simply a matter of perspective. Emily

She'd heard so many tales about the way love could save one's sanity; no one had ever told her hate could do the same.

economies depend a lot more on perceptions than realities.

We are each a river with a particular abiding character, but we show radically different aspects of our self according to the territory through which we travel.

Near-Death.com

If you have seen my YouTube documentary that was the genesis for this book entitled The 2012 Enigma,1 my Web site, Divine Cosmos,2 or some of my television appearances, you probably know I do not believe our future is depressing, terrifying or cataclysmic.

I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.