Quotes About Perspective

Driving home from work every day is a metaphor

Enjoyment is always greatest when you have enough contrast to measure it by.

When looking at nature, you must always consider the detail and the whole.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

In his heart, the joy of living fought with the hurt of it until he could no longer separate them, and the effort made him understand that they were not him. That he was apart from them, evaluating them. The

To paraphrase Montaigne—even when you're sitting on the highest throne in the world, you're still sitting on your arse.

Worry is throwing good shillings at trouble that hasn't happened yet.

One man's ugliness can blind another to the world's magic.

Look at that magic. Light mattered to Monet, to Cezanne, to Manet, and now Matisse is moving into almost flat color, and everyone is following. And Picasso? He doesn't care about light at all. But you can't have beauty without light, and beauty is the only worthwhile quest. Don't lose your way trying to become popular.

Look for the hidden blessings in difficult situations.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in that way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

when I think of really living, living to the full — all my ideas are just the opening credits of sitcoms.

The hand that records is also what makes everything unclear.

It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.

We thought there was a great distance between the future and us, and now here we are, falling through it.

People ask me whether I feel any hope for the future. I want to say to you: Yes, I do. I absolutely do. Not hope for the human race; we're screwed. But I feel tremendous hope for the Insect Overlords who shall succeed us as masters of the Earth.

and we smoke their sorrow contentedly; and we eat their sorrow; and we wear their sorrow; and wonder how it came so cheap. It

It meant different things to different people, but somehow it meant them all intensely. Shostakovich's words just confuse the issue. His symphony itself is what remains. Listen to it. It is your symphony to write with him.

How can we ever tell what the world really looks like? On a misty day, even the hills of Elfland are gray and dismal. Look through a gemstone, and the dullest street sparkles. I have had both my eyes put out by goblins, and so, for me, the world is profoundly dark.

Then it was this big thing. She was like, 'I never want to see you again', and I was like, 'Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

When our parents are alive, they stand in front of us, blocking our view of death. But once they've gone, we find ourselves at the cliff edge.

Live life, because when you stop and look around, you see a wonderful world.

lo que nos ocurre y se nos presenta siempre es una bendición, incluso aunque no lo parezca.

El doctor Ihaleakalá siempre dice: «Un problema no es un problema, a menos que digamos que lo es, y el problema no es el problema. El problema es cómo reaccionamos al problema».