Quotes About Perspective

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They

The fact that my neighbor has succeeded in this struggle better than I constitutes no grievance for me. Certain

Who dares say that he is not the friend of the poor man? Who dares say that he is the friend of the employer? I

Asked about China, he marvels at its economic transformation, but laments that too many Chinese "like to gamble, and they actually believe in luck. Now, that is stupid. What you don't want to believe in is luck. You want to believe in odds.

A television reporter once asked Bob Marley, "Are you a rich man?" The musician replied warily, "What you mean rich?" The reporter clarified his question: "You have a lot of possessions? A lot of money in the bank?" Marley responded with a question of his own: "Possessions make you rich? I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever.

You have, may be, heard of the covetous man, that hugged himself in the many bags of gold he had, but never opened them or used them. When the thief took away his gold, and left him his bags full of pebbles in the room, he was as happy as when he had his gold, for he looked not on the one or other. And verily an ignorant person is in a manner no better with truth than error on his side. Both are alike to him, day and night all one to a blind man.

Nobody is going to enjoy reading the contents of this book, but those who do read will be able to see things in their true perspective; they will be able to understand what is happening in the world today and why.

I could not shake my point of view, infected as it was, and I took up their study with a manly passion.

Her world must be flat because she disappeared all at once rather than a bit at a time.

A book is like a deck of windows

Here is history seen, endured, and created at the same time….. If you believe only that which you know to be true, you will trouble yourself with very little belief." On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War" in "Fifty Literary Pillars".

Because if we were each as identical as twins, I would scratch your face to say the scratch set you apart and made you more interesting, and gave you a purpose in life: to scratch me back a thousand times.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

Objectively, he found the rain helpful.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

The "olden times" are only such in reference to us. The past is rendered strange, mysterious, visionary, awful from this great gap in time that parts us from it, and the long perspective of waning years. Things gone by and almost forgotten, look dim and dull, uncouth and quaint, from our ignorance of them, and the mutability of customs. But in their day—they were fresh, unimpaired, in full vigour, familiar and glossy.