Quotes About Perspective

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

We don't have only two eyes; we have hundreds of wonderful eyes, because there are hundreds of wonderful photographers!

We find life in art and we find art in life!

We go up to the high places not to see what is up there but to see how the lower places look from the top!

We love the morning, because we know that there will be night soon! We love the night, because we know that there will be morning soon! Who loves the morning if there shall be no night? Who loves the night if there shall be no morning?

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

We need more windows for the houses. And for men, more reason!

We see the man when we look at the monkey; we see the monkey when we look at the man!

Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!

You can look at the world from a mountain or from a rat hole! Most people do the second!

You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds!

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

In such situations it is a good idea to divide hope into small bits of reality, not to expect a huge miracle at the end of the road but to wish for the grace of the few feet just ahead.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me...

But many people want to look upon God with the eyes with which they look upon a cow; they want to love God the way they love a cow that you love because it gives you milk and cheese. This is how people behave who want to love God because of external wealth or inner comfort; but they do not love God properly: rather, they love their self interest.

the man who sat naked in his tub said to Alexander the Great, who ruled the whole world: 'I am a greater lord than you are, for I have spurned more than you have seized. What you think it is a great thing to possess, is too trivial for me to scorn.

Furthermore, we should keep all things only as if they had been merely lent and not given to us, without any sense of possessiveness, whether it be our body or soul, our senses, faculties, worldly goods or honour, friends, relations, house or home or anything whatsoever.

they do him wrong who take God just in one particular way. They take the way rather than God' (Sermon 19).

The past is history, the future's a mystery. If you've got a foot in each, you're pissing on today.

It's simply a matter of creative accounting.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.