Quotes About Perspective

Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.

Let's only care about the place where we are. There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there's someone beyond the curve in the road, Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road, That's what the road is to them.

Yes: I exist inside my body. I'm not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket. I don't want to conquer worlds because I slept badly, And I don't want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach. Indifferent? No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it's wrong, A moment in the air that's not for us, And only happy when his feet hit the ground again, Pow! In reality where nothing's missing! (6/20/1919)

It's not enough to open the window To see the fields and the river. It's also not enough to not be blind To see the trees and the flowers. It's also necessary to not have any philosophy at all. With philosophy there are no trees, there are only ideas. There's only each of us, like a wine-cellar. There's only a shut window and the world outside it; And a dream of what you could see if you opened the window, Which is never what you see when you open the window.

Um dia de chuva é tão belo como um dia de sol. ambos existem, cada um como é. Por isso não há vantagem em pôr nomes errados às cousas, nem mesmo em lhes pôr nomes alguns

From my village I see as much in the Universe as you can see from earth. So my village is as big as any other land Because I'm the size of what I see, Not the size of my height.

A beleza é o nome de qualquer coisa que não existe Que eu dou às coisas em troca do agrado que me dão

Y los líderes dicen en las pantallas que no es cierto, y que la vida siempre ha sido igual —igual de buena—allá, en la parte mejor del mejor mundo posible

Estaba condenado con la maldición del que sabe dos idiomas y entiende, secretamente, que no domina del todo ninguno de los dos. Ahora era capaz de comparar; todo se me multiplicaba por dos. En cada sitio terminaba optando por el punto de vista ajeno. Ahora veo todo, esté donde esté, como un extranjero.

Ni la perfección ni la madurez están entre mis metas.

Eres un pesimista», recuerdo que me dijo una vez, a lo que yo le respondí que sí, que lo era, pero que eso era una ventaja. -¿Por qué? -me dijo. - Porque siempre espero lo peor. Así, cada vez que no ocurre, me sorprendo. Quedo feliz. Y cuando ocurre, porque de que ocurre, ocurre, no me deprimo ni me decepciono. Es lo acostumbrado. Es lo normal. Es como es. Pero no necesariamente como deber ser.

Creer que porque uno sintió algo, ese algo de alguna manera logró colarse y depositarse en el sistema digestivo del otro.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.

It may seem strange, but the idea that Maurizio might also hold his own weapons, or even the same ones, did not occur to me. And yet I should have suspected that Nella and the Party could also be turned against me. But that is how we men are made: we see everything from our own point of view and have great difficulty imagining another perspective.

Herkes kendi cennetini ba?kas?n?n cehennemine koyar.

aquilo que nos modifica não são os fatos extraordinários que acontecem uma só vez, mas sim esse hábito, essa longa aceitação das coisas contra as quais deixamos de nos revoltar.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.

"Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."

I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.

To insist that we all view Scripture alike, or that a particular interpretation of a particular passage be enforced somehow, can easily cripple the spiritual forces of the church.

Life is better lived through two pairs of eyes.

There are two sides to any argument. Does one side always have all the answers? Give it some thought.