Quotes About Perspective

La verdad es lo que puedes aprender, no lo que crees que debes aprender. Es lo que está allí, no lo que quieres que esté allí.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

Y a veces (¡qué difícil reconocerlo!) nada está tan cerca del bien como el mal.

Hay realidades que son infinitamente más difíciles de aceptar que la muerte.

Precisamente "rondar las cosas por el otro lado" es lo que diferencia al poeta del científico o del político, quienes, por el contrario, prefieren tenerlas siempre de frente, muy de frente.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.

There is no beauty in Music itself, the beauty is within the listener

Many paths lead from the foot of the mountain, but at the peak we all gaze at the single bright moon.

Mike went fishing one day, but at the end he had not caught a single fish. On the way back home, he stopped at a fish store. "I want to buy three trout, please," he said to the owner. "But instead of putting them in a bag, can you throw them to me?" "Throw them? Why do you want me to do that?" the owner asked. Mike replied, "So I can tell everyone that I caught three fish!

A kindergarten teacher watched her classroom of children while they were drawing. She occasionally walked around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working very hard, she asked her what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing heaven." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what heaven looks like." Without looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute.

The Gran Canyon is grand. But we, as beings with self-awareness, are granderthan the Grand Canyon.

When you look at it only from your own perspective, it's easy to think that only you have suffered harm. But if you change your thinking... you can approach the other person first and say, "I'm sorry. Please forgive me.

Behind our behaviors are our beliefs. They determine how we think things are and what is possible. The foundation of these beliefs is our conception of who we are, whether we are conscious of it or not.

We need to change our way of seeing the world and relating to it, not because our current way is intrinsically bad or "evil," but because we have become too powerful to continue to live as we have been living. Whether we like it or not, collectively we have become the most powerful factor in determining not only the future of human society, but also the direction of the entire planet with all its life-forms.

The essence of enlightenment … is a big understanding, which gives you a deep and wide perspective to see the world as a whole, and a capacity to accept with compassion all that is. 11/26

If we see our relationship to this planet in a wide and long perspective, one thing is very clear: we belong to this planet, not the other way around, and the only way we can protect ourselves and thrive is by learning how to live with the whole in harmony.

I've drunk French champagne in a speakeasy and water out of a horse trough in Poland, and the thing that matters is not what I'm drinking but who I'm drinking with.