Quotes About Perspective

Something my shrink once said bubbled up from memory: believing that everything is your fault is like saying the world revolves around you and that is pure narcissism and no less destructive.

Clinging to science was, when you got right down to it, just a god of a different flavor.

In peaceful times in a peaceful country a man grows up, goes to school, marries, works, suffers illnesses, grows old. He may go through the whole of life without understanding what freedom is. No doubt he always feels free to the extent to which it is proper for a respectable citizen with average powers of imagination to be free.

I knew that people lived badly, remembered the barracks of the Khamovniki brewery, had seen flophouses, all-night cafés, drunkards, cruel and ignorant people, prison. But all that had been from the outside, and in the courtroom I caught a glimpse of people's hearts.

For a second, I get a little sad about it. Not the leaving—just the way it seems like the world is always changing, right underneath my feet.

I believed in Papa's stories a lot longer than I should have.

The thinking few is right. But not always.

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.

Mom, think of all the good things that could happen to us instead of dwelling on what might go wrong," I urged her unsuccessfully.

Nuestro señor dice que dejemos de pedir milagros, —Segatashya continuó diciendo en la cinta—, porque sus vidas son milagros. Un verdadero milagro es un niño en el vientre; el amor de una madre es un milagro; un corazón misericordioso es un milagro. Sus vidas están llenas de milagros, pero ustedes están demasiado distraídos con las cosas materiales para verlos.

I identify it (i.e., Kadesh Barnea) with Mecca.

Estar en la cumbre es estar seguro de que el futuro no será nuestro por mucho que el presente lo sea, pero no deja de ser bello.

I photograph anything that light falls on.

It's such a difficult lesson to understand that someone can be wrong in theory and yet right in practice--because we want the world to be black and white, right and wrong, us and them.

Por mucho que escuchara, siempre hablaban de lo mismo, la libertad, pero no decían ni una palabra de la sopa. Yo estaba, por supuesto, muy contento de que fuéramos libres, pero no podía evitar pensar que el día anterior no había ocurrido nada por el estilo, pero teníamos sopa.

Myslím, že na místa, kde se odvíjely rozhodující události naÅ¡ich život?, stojí za to ob?as zavítat, abychom zjistili: nemáme sami se sebou nic spole?ného.

Recht en waarheid zijn niet meer universeel. Dat is een ernstig feit, maar we moeten het accepteren.

Mais n'exagérons rien, puisque c'est là le problème: je suis ici et je sais bien que j'accepte tous les arguments, au prix de pouvoir vivre

A leitura é como que uma droga que confere um adormecimento agradável aos contornos da crueldade da vida.

I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them.

But one who speaks in a borrowed tongue should be thankful if he can just make himself intelligible.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins