Quotes About Perspective

My aunt used to tell me that books are just trees that are having a dream.

Onderschat nooit het belang van kleine dingen.

We can look at the world through more than one lens. If we look at people through the lens of emotion, at the feelings that drive opinions, rather than the opinions themselves, it's easy to see the things we share. The hopes, the fears, the loves, the insecurities, the longings, the doubts, the dreams. Other people can be wrong, and we can be wrong, and that is another thing we have in common. The capacity for fucking up. And for forgiving.

Onderschat nooit het grote belang van kleine dingen.

Life is strange,' she said. 'How we live it all at once. In a straight line. But really that's not the whole picture. Because life isn't simply made of the things we do, but the things we don't do too. And every moment of our life is a . . . kind of turning.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term

Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.

And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things, Mrs Elm had said.

The prison wasn't the place, but the perspective

As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.' And Ash only saw the Nora he had fallen in love with and married, and so, in a way, that was the Nora she was becoming.

but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

Travel makes one modest," said Gustave Flaubert. "You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." Such perspective can be strangely liberating.

Circle. In another, I might be an Olympic swimming champion. Who knows? Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

Interessant dat het leven soms een heel nieuw perspectief kreeg als je maar lang genoeg wachtte omdat te zien, peinsde ze.

Two mirrors, opposite and facing each other at perfectly parallel angles, viewing themselves through the other, the view as deep as infinity. Yes, that was what love was for. (I may not have understood marriage, but I understood love, I was sure of it.)

Illness has a lot to teach wellness.

Are there any other lives at all or is it just the furnishings that change?

that the prison wasn´t the place, but the perspective.

But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

I now realise it is perfectly possible for anyone to feel old. All they need to do is become a teacher.

It was strange, the significance of that moment for me and the insignificance of it for her. But then I reminded myself that when galaxies collide they pass right through.

In mintea ta, schimba numele tuturor zilelor cu sambata. Si schimba numele muncii cu joaca.