Quotes About Perspective

She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all that this earth on which they lived turning about in space did not revolve, as she had believed, for the sake of little people. "Nor for big people either," she reminded the boy when she saw his secret smile.

Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong.

Here she was on the other side of the grating—here she was at last, on the outside—looking in!

she had the educated instincts of a European, not an Asiatic,

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.

Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

Time, on its own, heals nothing. ? Mary Rakow, The Memory Room . (Counterpoint, August 31, 2004) Originally published April 1st 2002.

In grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

You cannot step twice into the same river, said Herakleitos. People in the past were not just like us; to pretend so is an evasion and a betrayal, turning our back on them so as to be easy among familiar things.

For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There

It had come to him that no one would ever look from these eyes but he: that among all the lives, numerous beyond imagination, in which he might have lived, he was this one, pinned to this single point of infinity; the rest always to be alien, he to be I.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted

If you know about yourself, presumably you know about at least one other person.

Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this was what you wanted.

Se le ocurrió que nadie sino él miraría nunca desde sus ojos, que de entre todas las vidas en que podía haber vivido, más numerosas que lo imaginable, esta era la suya, clavada en este único punto del infinito; el resto siempre sería ajeno, él sería yo.

grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. "I have been hearing this expression—'we need to think outside the box'—for the past 3 days," she said, reiterating the cliche. "It seems a little strange to me," the woman continued with bemusement. "In my community we don't thinking boxes.

I like to read because it kills me.