Quotes About Perspective

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. —Truman Capote When

That everything that happens can be converted to good. We simply do not know the good of it, our world being so vast and wide and us but a small part in it

life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

You create your own reality

I climbed the ditch, walked out into the middle of the prayer stones and stared across to the monks' island. If you stood there and thought you heard mass when it wasn't being sung, how would it be different to standing there when it was being sung? Would the mass in your head be any less real?

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

Respect and fear are two different things.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

History is what people want to remember.

We evoke the world we perceive.

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?

Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.

a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.

I laughed at myself for getting so peeved. It did not matter that it had taken a week for the tailor to make the mattress. I had time and so did everyone else: time was the one resource everyone was rich in and generous with in Nepal. How maladjusted of me not to recognize this.

a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.