Quotes About Perspective

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

Sueña el rico en su riqueza, que más cuidados le ofrece; sueña el pobre que padece su miseria y su pobreza; sueña el que a medrar empieza, sueña el que afana y pretende, sueña el que agravia y ofende, y en este mundo, en conclusión, todos sueñan lo que son, aunque ninguno lo entiende.

Qué es la vida? Una ficción, una sombra, una ilusión, y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.

porque en el mundo, Clotaldo, todos lo que viven sueñan.

It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are

La realidad no está obligada a ser convincente.

Mas o panorama reduzia-se a porcos e galinhas passeando num monte de esterco, meia dúzia de palhotas, algumas ruínas de alvenaria e, ao fundo, na outra margem do Cubango, o Rundu, a Namíbia. Outro país, noutro planeta, a um segundo-luz.

eres todo lo que te queda por delante, sí, pero también mucho de todo lo que te quedan por detrás.

Deje que lo revuelva todo, que solo el que lo revuelve todo saca algo en claro.

As Adrienne Rich so acutely observed, "It is hard to write about my own mother. Whatever I do write, it is my story I am telling, my version of the past. If she were to tell her own story, other landscapes would be revealed. But in my landscape or hers, there would be old, smoldering patches of deep-burning anger.

Should not have accepted that their diagnosis was my truth.

She seemed to like best my daughter, Pegeen's, paintings, thought when I made the observation that the people in Pegeen's paintings, strangely enough, never seem to be engaged in any conversation with each other, all going their own ways, Mrs. Luce replied, 'Maybe they have nothing to say.

she confuses everything i am, shakes the change out of my pokets and makes me want to barter with foreign currency.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping

Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.

When adults read a book, they're two feet away; when children read it, they're right inside it.

How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?

You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather.

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

You are the sky. Everything else—it's just the weather.

No two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is -- in other words, not a thing, but a think.