Quotes About Perspective

Your life is just about craving, and making something else tremendously more important than you.

Even if I say something, do not believe this nonsense, but do not disbelieve it either. Just see, "Someone is willing to sit in front of so many people and talk absolute nonsense, something that is totally absurd. Let me see what this is about." If you keep that much openness, the possibility is alive in your life. If you believe it, you will kill it. If you disbelieve it, you will kill it.

people who have failed in their lives, they are suffering their failure. People who have succeeded in their life, they are suffering their success.

If you think you are big, you become small. If you know you are nothing, you become unlimited. That's the beauty of being a human being.

Reasons can always be justified Brahma. The biggest error in life is to believe that your reasons are right and the other person's reasons are wrong.

Fue tuyo mientras quiso estar contigo —razonó mi papá—

El mundo es un moco -dice él, contento. - Yo pensé que era un pañuelo -lo corrijo. - Ni siquiera es tan grande, amigo. Es el moco del pañuelo.

Pues eso no se sabe nunca –dijo el genio Vargas Llosa–. La amistad, como todo, es tan relativa, ¿no?

Es aquí en la vida en donde tengo que encontrar remedio de la vida. Y una buena receta es el amor y el saber mirar por encima de mi hombro mis propias penas.

La luna se puede tomar a cucharadas o como una cápsula cada dos horas. Es buena como hipnótico y sedante y también alivia a los que se han intoxicado de filosofía.

Too much hope could make it harder to accept reality when the time came.

Always I'm trying to make something human but as if it hasn't been made by a human.

Oh for God's sake, Jack, lighten up. You know the old saying. Every man loves the smell of his own farts." In

Never kick a cow turd on a hot day. Harry Truman said that. Words to live by.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

There is no "right" way--only the way that is put before you.

Well, you know what they say: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

She was never your's, it was just your turn.

But there was no use pretending: I was not the sort of person who counted blessings; I was the sort of person for whom there could never be enough blessings.

There is a certain way that life ought to be, an ideal way, a perfect way, and there is the way that life is, not quite the opposite of ideal, not quite the opposite of perfect, it just is not quite the way it should be but not quite the way it should not be either; I mean to say that in any situation, only one or two, maybe even three out of ten, things are just what you have been praying for.

How do you get to be a person who is made miserable because the weather changed its mind, because the weather doesn't live up to your expectations? How do you get to be that way?

I had never imagined my father dying. I had never inagined my parents dying. When I told Mariah this, she said that no one ever thinks their parents will die, ever, and I had to suppress the annoyance I felt at her for once again telling me about everybody when I told her something about myself.

Mariah was the kindest person I had ever known. Her concern was not an unexpected part of her; it could be said that her kindness was the result of her comfortable circumstances, but many people in her position were not as kind and considerate as she was. And that was the reason I couldn't bring myself to point out to her that if all the things she wanted to save in the world were saved, she might find herself in reduced circumstances;

Nunca se le ha ocurrido pensar que quizá su forma de querernos no sea lo mejor para nosotros.Nunca se le ha ocurrido pensar que quizá su forma de querernos la haya beneficiado más a ella que a nosotros. ¿Y por qué iba a ser así? Quizá toda forma de amor revierta en beneficio propio. No lo sé, no lo sé.