Quotes About Perspective

Sueño Un grupo de ciegos, lanzando insultos, se golpean con sus bastones. Uno de ellos me quiere atacar. Le digo: «No es necesario que se pelee conmigo. Yo no soy ciego».

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.

If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited.

No hay amaneceres violetas sin ojos que los reflejen, ni largos caminos sin pies que los recorran

Miente. Bea miente, como mentimos todas. No escribe para que la escuchen. Escribe porque no la escuchan. No es lo mismo. O puede que sí.

Quiero que recuerdes una cosa, y que se la recuerdes a ella si en algún momento las cosas no van bien. Grábatela en la cabeza, Fer. Te ayudará ahora y si llegas a viejo entenderás que tengo razón, porque solo los supervivientes entendemos que la vida no es lo que es, sino lo que sentimos al recordarla.

Hasta qué punto nos es difícil perdonar a quienes más queremos, cuando en realidad tendría que ser al revés.

What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America is America. The past and future exist without you. And what you don't know about me is still my life. What I don't know about you is still your life. Nothing at all depends on you seeing it or not seeing it. I mean, who are you? You don't have to see or know everything.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

I take picture because i like to look at the pictures I take. It seems to me that when people take a picture of something, they instantly forget about it. They can look at the picture and remind themselves.

I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions.

The end of the world might be near, Isador said to her once, but we don't have to rush to reach it.

It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again.

One person's garbage is another person's commodity.

Hence Joshua giggled to himself: life appeared to him exactly like the joint burning inexorably toward his fingertips—once it's smoked it cannot be unsmoked.

If Joshua had to put one sticker on his car (which he didn't have) it would be: Whatever is, is either in itself or in the other. Who on the street would ever understand what that meant?

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

Nothing is easier than to sit, like Father Matthew,[17] in the seat of judgement and condemn drunkenness, while you are yourself intoxicated with sobriety;

Art extends each man's short time on earth by carrying from man to man the whole complexity of other men's lifelong experience, with all its burdens, colors and flavor.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

It is this short circuit that constitutes the peak of comedy: not simply the fact that Big Jim erroneously sees a chicken when he looks at Charlie, but also the fact that, for all his error, he is somehow right-Charlie does look like a chicken.

Il soggiorno veronese è davvero il primo momento in cui Dante dovette rendersi conto di ...come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.