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Quotes About Perspective

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.
~ Les Brown
Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.
~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
~ Marsilio Ficino
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
~ Doris Lessing
All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.
~ Bob Dylan
Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.
~ Britney Spears
our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.
~ Hermann Hesse
A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
~ Francis Bacon
Your friend will argue with you.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
~ Merle Shain
Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.
~ David Brooks
It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.
~ Jay-Z
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.
~ Red Skelton
Every person is a new door to a different world.
~ Unknown
Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.
~ Dodie Smith
When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.
~ Joseph Joubert
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What will it take for you to believe in me, the way that I believe in you?
~ Billy Joel
Quarrel with a friend - and you are both wrong.
~ Laozi
He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I understand friendship and I can understand why Barak Obama did it, but I think Brexit is something that he shouldn't have done.
~ Donald Trump
It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.
~ Margaret Culkin Banning
You can't compare any job or any friendship or anything to another. I think if you do, it's kind of a recipe for disaster.
~ Vincent Kartheiser
Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.
~ Tori Amos