Quotes About Perspective

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!

A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!

A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!

A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

A royal garden is a very big place for slug, because slug is too slow, but it is small for a swallow which is too fast! Universe is a very big place for us simply because we are too slow! The day man becomes a swallow, universe will get smaller!

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!

All cultures have things to learn from all other cultures. Don't get stuck in your culture! Go beyond it! Get out of your aquarium; get out of your farm; get out of your castle; break your bell jar! Give chance to other cultures and to other opinions! This is the best way for you to see the insufficiencies, absurdities and stupidities in your culture!

All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!

All truths can be changed! Put this brave idea to the centre of your beliefs! All truths can be changed!

An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

An ordinary chair is always more comfortable than the king's chair!

Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.

Are you happy? It doesn't matter! Are you unhappy? It doesn't matter! What matters is whether you exist or not! Are you laughing? It doesn't matter! Are you crying? It doesn't matter! What matters is whether you exist or not!

Are you looking for a wealth in life? Fool! Life is the wealth itself!

Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!

Beautiful roads do not always lead to beautiful places! Heaven may be hidden at the end of an ugly road! Do not be deceived by the beginning; try to see the end!

Before claiming that your own country have the best mountain or have the most wonderful forest or have the prettiest temple, first travel around the world!

Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.