Quotes About Perspective

If one concentrated on one thing and then another—the good things in each moment—the fear wrapped deep in the gut seemed to unswell, like an iced bruise. Still there, but quieter.

It didn't get better, not in my book. I mean if you weren't looking too hard at what just happened or who might be down the road or at some other stuff. Maybe living well is the art of not looking at that, at the other stuff, when you don't have to. Or being okay with it.

The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb the dead never do, if they never want anything.

Now in her mid-sixties, she had "common-lawed"—her words—old Ansel, who used to manage ranches in California and now spent most of his days rereading the Russians. Chekhov, Turgenev, Pushkin. Ren had once asked him why he loved them, as he himself found the going mostly too dour. "I don't love them," Ansel had said. "You don't?" "Nothing worth serious study is lovable.

It was an achievement-free zone, which Wynn was coming to realize is where most of his joy happened.

It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I liked him a lot better in that moment.

People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive, can live on. - Lu Xun

The history of China, like the history of any great culture, was written at the expense of other stories that have remained silent.

the American press tended to portray a China that was overwhelmingly negative and Beijing-centered. And yet like any waiguoren in China, I knew that I had access to a great deal of information that was unavailable to the Chinese, and as a result I often felt as if I understood the political situation better than the locals. It was impossible to avoid this type of arrogance, even though I realized that it was misleading and condescending, and I was careful not to voice my opinions openly.

Rasha had been employed by two different Chinese shops, and she said that after this experience she would never work for an Egyptian. She described the Chinese as direct and honest, and she appreciated their distance from local gossip networks. "They keep their secrets," she said.

No matter what data is used, we live in a universe where six days from one standpoint is several billion years from another standpoint. And indeed, all of time is an instant from the standpoint of light, and "God is light.

We can write ourselves out of our own story, but not out of God's Story, the Deepest Story.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is... the viscously long battle between world views. And eventually -Finally- no matter how much it may hurt, Truth wins out. Every. Damn. Time.

Perspective. Everything was about perspective. One man's darkness was another man's daylight. How come so many people did not realize that?

That's the one good thing about the human brain, it constantly revises the past, cutting bits here, adding bits there, presenting it in an even more palatable way - the way we would have liked things to have been, rather than the way they really are.

He had read somewhere that when a man marries a woman, he hopes she will stay the same forever, but when a woman marries a man, her agenda is to change him.

La vida es aquello que te va sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes».

If you ever thought you were too small to make a difference, you've never shared a bed with a mosquito.