Quotes About Perspective

I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

Whatever your personal beliefs and experiences, I invite you to consider that we need a new worldview to navigate this chaotic time. We cannot hope to make sense using our old maps. It won't help to dust them off or reprint them in bold colors. The more we rely on them, the more disoriented we become. They cause us to focus on the wrong things and blind us to what's significant. Using them, we will journey only to greater chaos.

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

We think there is *one* planet called Earth, but there are thousands, even *millions*, like a snake shedding its skin every so often, but with all the old skins still bunched around it. You live inside the creature for quite a while, so it comes as a shock to find you're living now in one of the husked-off skins, and sometimes you can touch and know about the creature as it is now and sometimes you can't.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Well, you're young. You know a whole lot you won't know later on." ~ Christie Logan

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

What may seem like a reasonable way of protecting oneself can look very different from the other side of the border.

As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.

IF YOU BELIEVE THE DOCTORS," Salisbury once remarked, "nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.

These were true things, Laura knew, but they were only part of the truth which was something less orderly than Kate made it sound. Some parts of the full, disorderly truth were lodged in Kate and Laura like splinters of corroding steel. Their feelings had grown around the sharp, wounding edges which didn't hurt anymore but were still there, fossils of pain laid down in the mixed-up strata of memory.

La storia è un millepiedi e ogni piede tira da una parte diversa, e in mezzo c'è il nostro corpo.

Spesso non ci accorgiamo di quello che abbiamo, non siamo grati alla vita.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

You are totally unique. Just like everyone else.

A cat may look at a king, but he might also lose a bit of fur for it.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.