Quotes About Perspective

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up the channel changer.

the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it.

When the human being says:'It is not true...'He may mean:'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'Or:'I don't like it.

However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Maybe stories choose how they are told and who tells them.