Quotes About Perspective

Zo vreemd, zegt ze, dat wij hier nu samen zijn, onbegrijpelijk. Ik denk dikwijls dat er eigenlijk niet veel verschil is tussen leven en dromen. Het verschil is maar schijnbaar, doordat we, als we wakker zijn, alles veel te bevooroordeeld bekijken om te zien dat het leven ook een droom is.

Wat zou er trouwens veranderen als er op andere planeten ook mensen woonden? Ik heb nooit gehoord dat de Europeanen zich minder eenzaam voelden, toen Columbus ontdekte dat Amerika bestond er dat er daar ook mensen waren.

Je zou een tweede hoofd moeten hebben om te begrijpen wat dat éne hoofd is, maar ik heb er maar een, hier is het in mijn handen, ik houd het vast op een manier waarop een mens nooit iets anders vasthoudt.

Wat zij mij gaf, was voldoende. Misschien waren het korstjes brood, eigenlijk voor de meeuwen bestemd; ik was er gelukkig mee, of kon doen alsof.

Krankzinnigheid is iets wat alleen door zijn zeldzaamheid wordt bepaald. Als van honderd mensen er vijf en negentig krankzinnig zijn, dan zijn niet zij krankzinnig, maar de vijf, die het niet zijn

Beliefs indeed can create reality.

Of all persons living, he who does not remember that he has once been young, is the most completely disqualified for giving youthful counsel.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges.

We have to remember that the way things are is not the only possible way that they could be.

Maleness is [...] a limited and subjective position rather than the standard from which ribs are removed

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess, That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

Those two were never friends. But Grace Goodhue was right about Calvin Coolidge, her mother was wrong. It was love at first sight. She, however, probably saw him first. Not only was her social experience wider than his, her emotional intelligence was keener. So when her lover and her mother clashed, she followed her lover.

While friends we were, the hot debates That rose 'twixt you and me! Now we are mere associates, And never disagree.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...

We can either spend this moment wishing it could be different, or we can embrace this moment.

one wonderful way to tame our tendency to always want more is to persuade ourselves to want the things we already have.

After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.

According to Seneca, "A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is." He therefore recommends that we "do away with complaint about past sufferings and with all language like this: 'None has ever been worse off than I. What sufferings, what evils have I endured!'" After all, what point is there in "being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy?"21

How, after all, can we convince ourselves to want the things we already have? THE STOICS THOUGHT they had an answer to this question.

There was also agreement that one wonderful way to tame our tendency to always want more is to persuade ourselves to want the things we already have.