Quotes About Perspective

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay good night and quickly turn away.

as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower

Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. BELIEF

I disagreed with him about everything, but I admired him beyond words.

All propositions which set all the truth on one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.

What living occasion can, Be just to the absent?

And how reliable can any truth be that is got By observing oneself and then just inserting a Not?

Animal femurs ascribed to saints who never existed, are still *** more holy than portraits of conquerors who, unfortunately, did

Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.

the dead are not separate from the living each has one foot in the unknown and cannot speak for the other