Quotes About Perspective

If you plan to be happy, you will find at least one reason to be happy. Real happiness is never accidental. Discover happiness on your terms.

Beanie I have a wife and kids. Do I seem like a happy guy to you, Frank

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

Perhaps it's only those who don't know us at all who are able to see us most clearly.

If the answer's not in front of you or behind you, remember there are four other directions to look.

Later, once they had returned to Boston and gained some perspective, she would see that this was part and parcel of extremist thought the world over: the heaping on of selective trivia that only a computer could fact-check in real time, the raw accumulation of unverifiable anecdote that could create a new reality.

Tragedy plus time isn't comedy,

It was like pointillism: Stand too close, and it makes no sense. Step far enough back, and you can see it. Maybe.

Or maybe her smile has nothing to do with me, and I'm not really the center of the universe. Unlikely, but possible.

this was why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

One internee told me that he had been in their barrack while they waited for the trucks. The children were sitting on the floor, wide-eyed and silent. He asked one lad, "Well, how are you, Janeck?" With a thoughtful expression on his face, the child answered, "Everything is so bad here that it can only be better 'over there.' I am not afraid.

Toda mirada por encima del hombro puede adulterar los inocentes escenarios

Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you're looking at.

We have a view of the world, but Animals have a sense of the world, do you see?

Wie pani, czasem mam wra?enie, ?e ?yjemy w ?wiecie, który sobie wymy?lamy. Ustalamy sobie, co jest dobre, a co nie, rysujemy mapy znacze?... A potem ca?e ?ycie zmagamy si? z tym, co?my sobie wykoncypowali. Problem polega na tym, ?e ka?dy ma swoj? wersj?, i dlatego tak trudno jest si? ludziom dogada?.

If people could read the same books, they would inhabit the same world.

the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.

Historie ?ycia nie s? tematem do dyskusji. Powinno si? ich wys?ucha? i zrewan?owa? si? tym samym.

Prawda jest jak s?kacz, sk?ada si? z wielu warstw, które kr?c? si? wokó? siebie, raz siebie zawieraj?, a raz same s? zawierane przez inne. Prawda to jest co?, co mo?na wyra?a? wieloma opowie?ciami, bo jest jak ten ogród, do którego weszli m?drcy: ka?dy widzia? co innego.

You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves . . . And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.

When we were young we thought of old age as an ailment that affected only other people.

Mówi? do kogo?, kto nie rozumie, to próbowa? otworzy? zamek ?d?b?em trawy, to kroi? chleb ga??zk? bazylii, wkr?ca? ?arówk? w ptasie gniazdo, wk?ada? dyskietk? mi?dzy dwa kamienie.

From nature's point of view no creatures are useful or not useful. That's just a foolish distinction applied by people.