Quotes About Perspective

You would see good in the face of Satan himself if he arrived at your door with a pitiful story and a hungry belly." "And would I be wrong to do so? If Satan needed feeding?

We should remember this. Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.

Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand - hasn't Allie learned that well enough? There is a blow behind the blow.

How many miracles does it take? Not too many.

You need a window into another world to work out what you think of your own.

Tú verías bondad en la cara del mismo Satán si llamara a tu puerta con una historia lastimera y el estómago vacío - ¿Y me equivocaría? ¿Si Satán necesitara alimento?

Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.

That those who live narrow lives have only themselves to blame when they find themselves shocked.

There was a time when Esti thought that Ronit's face contained the world, but now, well, it's just a face. She's grateful for that, grateful for the change, because it's not good to see the world in a face that doesn't belong to you, that's always turning away from you.

the highest among us aren't always the wisest, and the older generation isn't always the best to judge what's right.

All beauty touches the human heart, be it only so small as an ant or a spider.

That's one thing about Scott—he makes everything seem simple, because in his mind everything is.

There's never been a right choice, honeybun. The whole idea that there are two things and you have to choose is the problem.

Když se vám zdá, že odporuje, pak vy odporujete. Když nespolupracuje, ptejte se sami sebe, jak vy s ním spolupracujete.

The closer you are to death, the more you want to live.

But Wishbone didn't know the whole story. He hadn't seen the ravaged bodies, the burning flesh. One minute friends laughed, full of life; next minute, destroyed. Those things never escaped one's mind. Once you witnessed that, you saw evil, and it didn't live in just Americans or Japanese. It lived close by, in friends, in neighbors, and, most frighteningly, inside yourself.

Radical acceptance is to know that painful things are still going to happen, but how we respond makes a difference. We don't have to condone our current reality, but we have to accept it for what it is instead of staying stuck, wishing it were different.

Forget the story.

truth didn't mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn't come and listen.

Throughout our story, the people involved demanded the right to be heard, insisting that we—the public—had the right to hear both sides and that the media had an obligation to present it. They insisted that this was only fair and democratic. But were they attempting to preserve democracy? No. The issue was not free speech; it was free markets.

There is an old joke: A physicist, an engineer, and an economist are stranded on a desert island with nothing but canned food. The physicist proposes to make a fire and heat the can until it bursts. The engineer proposes to climb to a local ridge and drop the can, which will burst on landing. The economist says: "Assume a can opener.

A belief in invisible cats cannot be logically disproved," although it does "tell us a good deal about those who hold it."19

A focus on one method above all others is a kind of fetish. These cases suggest that some of the historical examples of "science gone awry" arose from what I designate methodological fetishism. These are situations where investigators privileged a particular method and ignored or discounted evidence obtained by other methods, which, if heeded, could have changed their minds.

Balance was interpreted, it seems, as giving equal weight to both sides, rather than giving accurate weight to both sides.