Quotes About Perspective

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I really hope no white person ever has causeto write about mebecause they never understandBlack love is Black wealth and they'llprobably talk about my hard childhoodand never understand thatall the while I was quite happy.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don't. ...If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

Mom still looks at my skateboard as if it's a tiny coffin with my name stamped on the rim.

You have to take people one at a time, check out what's in their head and heart before you judge.

Jealousy is a waste of energy...focus on what I have, not what I don't.

When You've lost it all....thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

When You've lost it all....that's when you realize that Life is Beautiful.

Was wir über unsere Gesellschaft, ja über die Welt, in der wir leben, wissen, wissen wir durch die Massenmedien

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views

But until now I did not understand; everything was in a sort of mist. And I believe it all arose from believing that the brain is in the head. It's not so at all; it comes with the wind from the direction of the Caspian Sea.

I'd like to peek into the drawing room, where you sometimes see only an open door into yet another room beyond the drawing room.

Really it tires one to hear you. How come you always to be so cheerful?" "And how come YOU always to be so gloomy?" retorted the host. "How, you ask? Simply because I am so.

However foolish be a madman's words, they may yet prove sufficient to sow doubt in the minds of saner individuals.

I confess I don't understand why it's so arranged that women grab us by the nose as deftly as if it were a teapot handle. Either their hands are made for it, or our noses are no longer good for anything.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Maybe you're right, boss. It all depends on the way you look at it. Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandad' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree' and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied, 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss

I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.