Quotes About Perspective

When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to satisfy him personally that it is so. The same evidence which convinces one expert may leave another completely unsatisfied.

Nothing coats the world bad or good, but thinking makes it so.

Selfishness is neither good nor bad—it depends on the way we are selfish as to whether it nourishes or injures.

I wish" assumes that I know what is the opposite of my present experience.

It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.

When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don't know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don't know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

La bellezza delle cose esiste nella mente di chi le osserva

Goethe, the great poet-philosopher, once wrote: "I find more and more that it is well to be on the side of the minority, since it is always the more intelligent.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

the problems of three little people in a big world don't add up to much

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

I am a very 'unvoracious' reader, and since I can seldom bring myself to read a work twice I think of the many things that I read – too soon! Nothing, not even a (possible) deeper appreciation, for me replaces the bloom on a book, the freshness of the unread. Still what we read and when goes, like the people we meet, by 'fate.' Letter 189 From a letter to Mrs M. Wilson

Rarely," said Dax to himself, "does a soldier see with naked eyes. He is nearly always looking through lenses, lenses which are made of the insignia of his rank.

There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Good will and ill will are just two sides of the same card...