Quotes About Perspective

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Sometimes you think you know more than you really do—people, events, things that are true and things that are not. Sometimes you think you know yourself. But then, surprise, it is someone else who shows you what is really there, like the truth a photograph shows.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

What is it that some women think a man who's been eatin' buffet all his life will suddenly settle in for the same menu every night once he tastes their cookin'?

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.

And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are.

Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.

If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes," said Marcel Proust.

You can see a lot of the world from a curb.

There really is no downside to travel, save a little jet lag and a dented bank account. A small price to pay for a million-dollar experience.

One sees in God only what one worships.

Very few people want to know the truth. They wish to be confirmed in their own opinions, which is a very different thing—very different indeed.

The way you turn a sad story around, you should be a comedian! You're the funniest person I know.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

The hardest thing to find is peace, though it lay in plain view

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

Morning, I soon discovered, was one o'clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.

Es posible cultivar sueños del Norte y sueños de Sur, de Occidente y de Oriente. Lo inevitable, al parecer, es no querer estar donde se está.

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

Rancid was poor. He didn't seem to know that he was poor, however, and I never had the heart to tell him, because he was the happiest person I'd ever met. If he had known he was poor, of course, then he would have been sad and miserable all the time. As it was, Rancid was able to live out his whole life in blissful ignorance of the fact that he was poor.

The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.

Our lives are like a piece of embroidery: on one side, all loose ends, cut threads, and knots; but, turned around at death, a marvelous, coherent picture.