Quotes About Perspective

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.

la fantasía, ¿sabes?, es la única cualidad humana que no está sujeta a las miserias de la realidad.

Reírse un poquito del dolor hace al dolor un poco más pequeño.

One day you're breaking hearts, and then you blink and it's decades gone and your heart attacks you.

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

You might be an intelligent person, but once you let someone else filter the world for you, you have no way to critically analyze what you're hearing. At best, absolute best case scenario, if they blatantly contradict themselves, you can spot that. But if they take basic care to maintain an internal logical consistency, which they all do, you've got nothing. You've delegated the ability to make up your mind.

To people at the top, the scariest thing is how many people there are below.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a whole flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

But the loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly, eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

History,' it has been said, 'does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the root of all the evil that is in the world

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?