Quotes About Perspective

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that just closed, turn around- and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our soul.

You seem to look upon depression as the hand of an enemy trying to crush you…Do you think you could see it instead as the hand of a friend, pressing you down to the ground on which it is safe to stand?

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. -Super man

Turistii se adunau de acum in batalioane organizate inaintea catedralei, mitraliindu-I fatada cu o docilitate unaninma. In sort sau in bermude atacau plini de hotarare locurile sfinte, cu degetul pe tragaciul camerei de luat vederi, gata sa-l surprinda pe Dumnezeu in flagrant delict. Turistul nu crede in lucruri decat dupa ce le-a transfigurat in poze.

?i vai, biet plugar pe p?mânturile ei roz È™i roditoare, nu m? în?lÈ›am niciodat? la nivelul delirului ei.

Some people's happiness is always other people's kitsch.

A infelicidade não é só a infelicidade: é, ainda pior, o fracasso da felicidade.

Il dit en soufflant : "Je pense que toute ma vie j'ai été jaloux. La jalousie précède l'imagination. La jalousie, c'est la vision plus forte que la vue.

Del otro, lo aceptaban todo, incluso lo que no comprendían.

Nous sommes la première civilisation qui dispose d'un passé devenu immense. En 1940 personne ne connaissait les grottes de Lascaux et de Chauvet. En juillet dernier des chercheurs ont découvert un crâne vieux de sept cents millions d'années. La profondeur du temps a remplacé les dieux.

Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

Retiring young isn't for everybody, even if you think it is. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Truth and information are not the same thing! And neither are reality and state of existence!

The universe doesn't know good or bad, only less or more.

Today's hard news stories were yesterday's dystopian SF. Rereading

I don't know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

One annual report is worth 10 speeches by a Federal Reserve chairman.

It was strange, she thought, pedaling steadily, that it should require a holocaust to make her own life worth living.