Quotes About Perspective

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

The two women looked at each other as if through the periscopes of enemy submarines across a fathomless and crawling sea.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

We need to be able to acknowledge and tolerate a person's wounded self -putting it into a perspective- in order to create a loving relationship with them.

If you are attracted to someone who has narcissistic tendencies, but are unable to put their narcissism and lack of empathy into a healthy perspective, then this person is isn't for you - not matter how much you love their essence.

bitter is a bad way to live!

The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look at it with their two-dimensional retinas.

Can we apply this expression to our own belief in the reality of God in our lives and our world? As

The older you get, the higher you wear your underwear. Like rings on a tree. Eighty, ninety years old, your breasts are inside them. When you die, they just pull them up over your head.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

It's a funny old world.

New ideas are created when they can be discussed freely, but if there is a CORRECT view then you cease to have new ideas

It's only when you grow up and step back from him–or leave him for your own home–it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it.

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

Every man is a bachelor out of his wife's sight!

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

I will never understand the whole world or even one country. All I can do is try to understand the truth and lies in the simplest choices I face every day.

Is there any way that two people from faraway places can ever really understand each other's daydrems?