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Quotes About Perspective

There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Once we have reached a certain age, it's hard to be reconciled to the fact that people are always going to be impatient with us.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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." There was some truth in
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Other people's life stories are not a topic for debate. One should hear them out, and reciprocate in the same coin.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
And he who has once seen the world's borders will suffer his imprisonment most painfully of all.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Cz?owiek, którego widzisz, nie dlatego istnieje, ?e go widzisz, ale dlatego, ?e to on na ciebie patrzy.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that
~ Olga Tokarczuk
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.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
She often reflected on how her life had turned out, and she was coming to the conclusion that the truth was simple: men needed women more than women needed men.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
You Know what, sometimes it seems to me we've living in a world that 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 problems is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Czasami, gdy Cz?owiek do?wiadcza Gniewu, wszystko wydaje si? oczywiste i proste. Gniew zaprowadza porz?dek, pokazuje ?wiat w oczywistym skrócie, w Gniewie powraca te? dar Jasno?ci Widzenia, o który trudno w innych stanach.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
As I stood there, gazing at the pulpits, I could turn around at any moment to take gentle hold of the sharp, jagged line of the horizon as if it were a strand of hair. To look beyond it.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There are many roads to God, it isn't ours to judge.' 'Of course it's ours. There are roads, and there's the wilderness.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world 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.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Ta [Jumal] on meie sees, aga meie oleme tema sees. Ta tegutseb pimesi, aga teab, mida teeb. Ta on nagu leib - igaüks saab kääru ja maitseb seda omal kombel, aga ükski leivakäär ei sisalda tervet leiba.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think? I trot around the little house, treading
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Literatura pomaga nam rozpozna? si? w cudzych istnieniach".
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Med štirikratnimi menjavami letnih ?asov drevo ne ve, da obstaja ?as in da si letni ?asi sledijo. Za drevo obstajajo vse vrednosti hkrati. Zima je del poletja, jesen del pomladi, del vro?ine je hlad, del rojevanja je smrt. Ogenj je del vode in zemlja del zraka.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Wojnicz ju? zauwa?y?, ?e ka?da dyskusja, czy sz?o o demokracj?, czy o pi?ty wymiar, czy o rol? religii socjalizm, Europ?, wreszcie sztuk? nowoczesn?, wszystko w ko?cu sprowadza?o si? do kobiet
~ Olga Tokarczuk
We speak of grown-ups being "tall," but a child is "long.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
They really were the people from the well - they'd fallen into it long ago and had now arranged their lives at the bottom of it, thinking the well was the entire world.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
~ Olin Miller
Now then, the funeral party. In case you all aint noticed, the first three letters of the word funeral spells fun.
~ Olive Ann Burns
Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
~ Olive Schreiner