Quotes About Perspective

Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life

El mundo es un caleidoscopio. La lógica la pone el hombre. El supremo arte es el del azar.

Casi el único valor de las grandes obras maestras del ingenio humano consiste en haber provocado un libro de crítica o de comentario.

Obermann: «Para el Universo, nada; para mí, todo»;

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

Toma agua bendita, que dijo alguien, y acabarás creyendo.

Y «¿quién eres tú?» –me preguntas–, y con Obermann te contesto: «¡Para el universo, nada; para mí, todo!».

Cada hombre es un mundo, Gertrudis. —Y cada mujer, una luna, ¿no es eso, don Juan?

Los hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías, y es porque esas penas y esas alegrías vienen embozadas en una inmensa niebla de pequeños incidentes. Y la vida es esto, la niebla. La vida es una nebulosa.

La mujer sólo ama a su hombre mientras no piense como ella, es decir, mientras piense.

Eso pasa mucho; el mote mismo que damos a alguien nos suena muy de otro modo cuando se lo oímos a otro

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what they're talking about.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

Alimentados de pesimismo no vivimos la vida, la sufrimos.

Empezaba a darse cuenta de que la vida es pródiga en hechos que antes de acontecer parecen inverosímiles y luego, cuando sobrevienen, se percata uno de que no tienen nada de inextricables ni de sorprendentes.

En el mundo —le dijo Mamá, y el cigarrillo se movía a compás de sus labios como si fuera un apéndice propio— hay personas absorbentes, que creen que sólo lo suyo merece respeto. Huye de ellas, Quico, como de la peste.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

Whenever we hear an opinion and believe it, we make an agreement, and it becomes part of our belief system.

Nada é eterno nem adquirido, tudo é fugaz e passageiro. A ilusão - seja a de felicidade ou a de tristeza - é acreditar num horizonte fechado, ao alcance da vista, que ignora ou finge ignorar os horizontes sucessivos que estão para além do imediato.

a terra pertence ao dono, mas a paisagem pertence a quem a sabe olhar.

enjoyment, as we have seen, does not depend on what you do, but rather on how you do it.

Yet even if their advice were to work, what would be the result afterward in the unlikely event that one did turn into a slim, well-loved, powerful millionaire? Usually what happens is that the person finds himself back at square one, with a new list of wishes, just as dissatisfied as before. What would really satisfy people is not getting slim or rich, but feeling good about their lives. In the quest for happiness, partial solutions don't work.

One of the simplest ways to decrease the frequency of negative thoughts is by selectively moderating expectations.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.