Quotes About Perspective

Sa nu crezi ca stii. Sa stii ca tu crezi.

After all, humans – especially adult ones – want to believe the most mundane truths possible. They need to, in order to stop their world-views, and their sanity, from capsizing and plunging them into the vast ocean of the incomprehensible.

Tragedia e doar comedia care nu a ajuns la indeplinire. Intr-o buna zi vom rade de asta. Vom rade de tot.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try .

However, when humans forget to breathe they also forget they are alive, and this is dangerous. It can lead to a loss of perspective, and a focus on things like mortgages, professional rivalry, the car they should be driving, and whether there is a need to refurbish the kitchen

Marriage was a truly alien concept. There probably weren't enough editions of Cosmopolitan on the planet for me to ever understand it.

You were born without any apps on your phone. Hey! Guess what? You were born without any phone at all. And life was still beautiful.

But there's some salad in the fridge if you get hungry.' Salad?! On his birthday!

So, you see? Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate term and found it. 'A load of bullshit.

Por qué querer otro universo cuando en este hay perros?

Nu conteaza ce cisteati, ci cum citesti. Povestitorul poate incepe o poveste, dar are nevoie de un cititor pentru ca ea sa prinda viata, iar asta nu se va intampla niciodata la fel.[...] Tot ce poate face scriitorul e sa ofere fitilul, de preferat uscat. Cititorul trebuie sa aprinda flacara.

I am coming to realise how wrong many of my aspirations have been. How locked out of the present I have found myself. How I have always wanted more of whatever was in front of me. I need to find a way to stay still, in the present, and, as my nan used to say, be happy with what you have.

I think you only appreciate me when you don't have me, which is not a great trait to have.

advised I take things "one day at a time," as if there were another way for days to be experienced.

Well, you don't see yourself as a bad cat owner any more. You looked after him as well as he could have been looked after.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller, We Bereaved

Shops are to Earth-dwellers what equation booths are to Vonnadorians.

I, for instance, discovered little moments of happiness, or humor, within despair. I realized things weren't always one thing or another thing. It was sometimes both. And as soon as we notice all that space inside us, we have a new perspective. Yes, there is room for a lot of pain but there is room for other things too.

I looked around at all the certificates on the wall and felt thankful to come from a place where personal success was meaningless.

There are patterns to life . . . Rhythms. It is so easy, while trapped in just the one life, to imagine that times of sadness or tragedy or failure or fear are a result of that particular existence. That it is a by-product of living a certain way, rather than simply living. I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there

there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

situations and chemistries didn't change, perspectives could. 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live. When you stag too long in a place, you forget just how big and expanse the world is. You get no sense of length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person. But once you sense the vastness, once something reveals it, hope emerges, whether you want it or not, and it clings to you as stubbornly as lichen clings to rock.

sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. 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.