Quotes About Perspective

You'll soon discover that although you feel time-poor, you are actually moment-rich.

There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You

A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Maailman kuvaa katselet, et maailmaa.

Some say history is made by the winners. Sometimes, it's rewritten by an author.

Even the strangest situations become normal if one knows nothing else.

The pain is a reminder that I'm lucky to be alive.

There can't only be bad things in life, otherwise the world would cease," said Tungdil. "Enjoy what you have.

A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.

Things done imperfectly still bless our lives

Cominciamo dal fondo. Let's begin at the beginning. St. Augustine said it most clearly, We are, every one of us, going to die. Rotting is the way of all things. A tree, a cheese, a heart, a whole human chassis. Now, knowing that, understanding that, living begins to seem less important than living the way you'd like to live. Do you agree with that?

Live gracefully in plenty and live gracefully in need. Embrace them both or swindle yourself out of half a life.

Words and images drink the same wine. There is no purity to protect.

Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon »morgen«.

Why not? We do not understand, agree, or accept your ways, but we do not judge. We honor your position. You are where you are supposed to be, given your past choices and your current free will to make

I now know we each have two lives: the one we learn by and the one we live after that. The

In Australien ist man der amerikanischen Zeit um siebzehn Stunden voraus. Man fliegt also buchsnächstäblich in den nächsten Tag hinein. Während des Fluges erinnerte ich mich daran, daß wir sicher sein konnten, daß es die Welt am nächsten Tag noch geben und alles in Ordnung sein würde! Auf dem Kontinent, der vor uns lag, war es schon >morgen<.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it

Reason is for rich people. We have madness.

am slowly realizing that even though the Singer is the center of the story that it really isn't his story. Like there's a version of this story that's not really about him, but about the people around him, the ones who come and go that might actually provide a bigger picture than me asking him why he smokes ganja.

people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.