Quotes About Perspective

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

El universo no se inclina ante sus deseos, sino que hace lo que hace; su jefe, sus compañeros, los accionistas de la empresa, los clientes y una serie de factores adicionales forman parte del universo, así que ¿por qué iba a esperar que cumplieran con su deseo?

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert; but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. —Thomas Sowell, American economist

By contrast, everyone can have a good life according to the Cynics, but few of us are inclined to spend it living in a tub and defecating in the streets.

The same goes even for death itself: it cannot be a bad thing, because you will not be there when it arrives.

This Daoist art of perspective-taking—recognizing the existence of various perspectives—is called the "Illumination of the Obvious" or the attainment of ming ? (acuity, discernment).

Nada emancipa tanto la mente» como adoptar un punto de vista racional; y nada te sitúa en una posición mejor y más objetiva para hacer frente a los problemas.

Actuar con moderación, ver las cosas no solo desde nuestra perspectiva, descubrir aquello que está fuera de nuestro control, desarrollar la empatía, asumir la autocrítica, analizar las causas de nuestra ira e impaciencia… Esto es lo que este extraordinario manual nos permite aprender al aplicar la filosofía estoica en nuestro día a día.

The many-worlds theory basically maintains that the reason quantum mechanics seems so strange is because we have access to only one of an infinite number of worlds. From our narrow perspective, the output of certain measurements (like that of the double-slit experiment) seems random and probabilistic, but that is an artifact of the fact that, literally, we don't have the full picture.

The Light is always there. How much light comes to you depends on you.

By being high, you become low and by being low, you become high. By being humble, you become high.

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.

People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.

And that's the beginning of the primary conversation in African American literature, right there: the African descendant explaining to the European descendant about how white people's actions are affecting the lives of black people.* In

My handicap will be a weapon of seduction? Do you really think so?

A veces nos derrumbamos hasta tal punto que la idea de la felicidad nos asusta. Los ojos del corazón se acostumbran a la oscuridad e incluso la luz más suave se vuelve cegadora.

I like believing, and I'm something of a professional dreamer, but I want to be able to choose what to believe in.

círculo infinito cuyo centro está en todas partes y su circunferencia es tan grande que parece una línea recta»?

Por qué lo que era inteligente para Martín era feo y peligroso para Catalina? Si Martín podía, Catalina podía y yo era Martín y Catalina al tiempo, de donde se infería, aunque costara de entender, que lo que un hombre podía poner en ejecución también podía ponerlo una mujer.