Quotes About Perspective

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitude and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

We don't have to play every game to know what winning feels like. We don't have to hear every piece of music in the world to understand music. We don't have to have tried every variety of grape from every vineyard to know the pleasure of wine. Love and laughter

There is only one of us. And we are all smaller than an internet. To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can't. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics. To be a proud and singular one. An indivisible prime.

So let's be kind to the people in our own existence. Let's occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because, wherever we happen to be standing, the sky above goes on for ever.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, 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

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all. Sometimes regrets are just . . .' She searched for the appropriate word and found it. 'A load of bullshit .

It's not what

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

We are the subject in the sentence.

No infravalores nunca la gran importancia de las cosas pequeñas. No lo olvides nunca»

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."' 'You know Thoreau?' 'Of course. If you do.

As Montaigne put it, "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Dar e mereu bine sa stim ce minunate ar parea atatea lucruri din viata noastra daca ar deveni rare.

Compare my life to the lives of other people.

Cerul nu incepe deasupra noastra. Nu exista un punct de inceput pentru cer. Noi traim in cer.

mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness

the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

I read news websites—another distraction—and my mind couldn't take it. The knowledge of so much suffering in the world didn't help put my pain in perspective. It just made me feel powerless. And pathetic that my invisible woes were so paralyzing when there were so many visible woes in the world. My despair intensified. So I decided to do something. I disconnected.

But these are other lives. Other variants of me. Not me me.' 'Yes, but while you are experiencing them, it is you who has to pay the consequences.

Viata se misca destul de repede. Daca nu te opresti sa privesti in jur din cand in cand, s-ar putea s-o ratezi.

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, 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.

For years now I had convinced myself that the sadness of the memories weighed more and lasted longer than the moments of happiness themselves.

The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

but there is a comfort in knowing it is possible to view any single thing in multiple ways.