Quotes About Perspective

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

couples don't love at the same time and for the same reason

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of life.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Everyone is right in his/her point of view but not necessarily on RIGHT

Life is so balanced, even when we are not.

Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

La idea tradicional de que es inevitable que las desigualdades económicas persistan e incluso empeoren hace que todos seamos, en cierto modo, marxistas.

First, does the manipulation change the structure of the existing situation, or does it instead change the second party's assessment of the situation? • Second, does the manipulation offer the second party an improvement, or does it instead lead the second party to accept a result that is not an improvement?

Hay décadas en las que no pasa nada y hay semanas en las que suceden décadas» —dijo Fidel enfatizando

Como escribió Gabriel García Márquez después de conocer al líder venezolano en una reunión especial que a tal fin convocó Fidel Castro: «Me estremeció la inspiración de que había viajado y conversado a gusto con dos hombres opuestos. Uno, a quien la suerte empedernida le ofrecía la oportunidad de salvar a su país. Y el otro, un ilusionista que podía pasar a la historia como un déspota más».

We must eat to live, and not live to eat.

Kebahagiaan yang tidak ada habis-habisnya akan membosankan. Itulah sebabnya kita mengalami pasang surut dalam hidup ini.

Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.

Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.

My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.

He looked at her amiably, as though she were a nice sofa. That must be the penalty of the grey hairs, the tired shadows under the eyes, that must be the beginning of getting old. She had noticed it. Young men looked at you as though you were a nice sofa, an article of furniture which they would never be desirous of acquiring.