Quotes About Perspective

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

People one doesn't care for, even dislike, make most of us feel uneasy when they appeal against their sentence.

Near as I can figure, living has always been the primary cause of dying, and the sooner we all accept that simple truth, the better off we'll be." Well,

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

Stevenson, though, Was soon enough reduced to the timeless lamentations of the I-Matang on an atoll: "I think I could shed tears over a dish of turnips," he wrote in a letter. And elsewhere: "I had learned to welcome shark's fresh for a variety; and a mountain, an onion, an Irish potato or beefsteak, had long had been long lost to sense and dear to aspiration.

Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks "because it makes other people less boring.

Not clinging to goals, even worthy goals, may be the way out of unhappiness.

Unhappiness itself is not the problem—it is an inherent and unavoidable part of being alive. Rather, it's the harshly negative views of ourselves that can be switched on by unhappy moods that entangle us. It is these views that transform passing sadness into persistent unhappiness and depression

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. (ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST, 1871–1922)

The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking out new landscapes but in having new eyes. ATTRIB. MARCEL PROUST

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

Captain John Sheridan: I wish I had your faith in the universe. I just don't see it. Delenn: Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of them all. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station , and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. And as we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.

The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Se riesci a contare i soldi, vuol dire che non hai un miliardo di dollari.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.