Quotes About Perspective

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world)

The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those have not viewed the world.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

How you see a country depends on whether you are driving through it, or live in it. How you see a country depends on whether or not you can leave it, if you have to.

What did I know about the fifty-five (give or take) countries of Africa? I carried within me one deep personal thread of one small part of it, and it had changed and colored everything

It should not be physically possible to get from the banks of the Pepani River to Wyoming in less than two days, because mentally and emotionally it is impossible.

You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing

Dammit, woman, you've been trying to get rid of me since I arrived in Hannibal," he rasped. "Why would you suddenly want me to stay?" She shrugged. "I'm a woman. I'm allowed to change my mind whenever I want, as many times as I want." "Convenient.

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

Journal writing is, foremost, a way to order and reframe perspective.

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.

Bir ressam için en ideal olan?, Pantheon'un *oculus'ü gibidir. Yüksekten gelen ???k modelin yüzüne, hatta o anlams?z çirkin yüze bile, tatl? bir hava, sanatç?n?n istedi?i biçimde i?leyece?i bir tür güzellik katacakt?r... *oculus: (Latince) Mercek, cam.

We are the sum total of our memories. Memories are the most precious things we have. Good or bad. That's what make us who we are. What would we be without them?

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.

Embrace your sense of humour, don't ever take yourself too seriously, every day is another chance to laugh instead of cry, and when nothing is certain, everything is a hell of a lot less scary when you make fun of it. Amen.

And suddenly it hits me. Our roles have completely reversed.It's no longer me giving my younger self advice; it's her giving me advice. And I'm fast realising that actually I don't know better at all. About some things, yes - I glance at that terrible silver eyeshadow - but not about everything, far from it.

But that's one of the good things about getting older: often the most terrible of things turn into the most amusing through the lens of time.

My theory is that's why our eyesight goes as we get older: to protect us from seeing ourselves in sharp focus.

Every baby's the only in my observation of mothers.