Quotes About Perspective

Alexander was silent. "Now you're really tiny," he said at last. "I'm not tiny," she returned. "You're just outsized." Blushing, she lowered her gaze.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Don't waste time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Conditioned by the position of oppressing others, any situation other than their former seems to them like oppression. Formerly, they could eat, dress, wear shoes, be educated, travel, and hear Beethoven; while millions did not eat, had no clothes or shoes, neither studied nor traveled, much less listened to Beethoven.

Each, however, as he revolves about "his" truth, feels threatened if that truth is questioned. Thus, each considers anything that is not "his" truth a lie.

How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and ignore my own? How can I enter into dialogue if I regard myself as a case apart from other men [sic]?

language is never neutral

Só uma nuvem te separa das estrelas

It is not I who mix the colors but your own vision,' he answered. 'I only place them next to one another on the wall in their natural state; it is the observer who mixes the colors in his own eye, like porridge. Therein lies the secret. The better the porridge, the better the painting, but you cannot make good porridge from bad buckwheat. Therefore, faith in seeing, listening, and reading is more important than faith in painting, singing, or writing.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.

You're like a rebellious child! Huh? You always treat me like a kid, but you're a kid yourself!

Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.