Quotes About Perspective

A man will seek to express his relation to the stars; but when a man's consciousness has been riveted upon obtaining a loaf of bread, that loaf of bread is as important as the stars.

Every man, it seems, interprets the world in the light of his habits and desires

George Washington Cable in the nineteenth century and, in Wright's own time, William Faulkner.

I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. I now felt that I knew what the white man were feeling. Merely because I had read a book that had spoken of how they lived and thought, I identified myself with that book.

Then, first of all, let us admit that there is no such thing as objectivity, no such objective fact as objectivity. Objectivity is a fabricated concept, a synthetic intellectual construction...

If you think I'm telling tall tales, get chummy with some white cop who works in a Black Belt district and ask him for the lowdown. When

he had lived within the narrow grooves of habit so long that he had learned to see in his dark world without the aid of eyes

The plots and stories in the novels did not interest me so much as the point of view revealed. I gave myself over to each novel without reserve, without trying to criticize it; it was enough for me to see and feel something different. And for me, everything was something different. Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Our brains are belief engines, not truth engines.

Everyone has one system they use and one they are building, but most do not see the bigger picture of the system they are in.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Só te suplico que não subas tão alto que eu te perca de vista

I thought you'd snap out of it. I thought, with a little time, you'd lighten up and see how it didn't matter!

True worship is not trying to see The Lord, but it comes from seeing Him.

there are always more than two sides to a story, that nobody is ever as bad as people think, and nobody is ever as good as people think.

it's hard to talk sensibly with giants - their massive heads tend to get lost in the clouds

Happiness is just the absence of pain. It's the best I can hope for.

Life is a series of unique opportunities. It's our job to find the happiness in each one.

Betsy: Do you have daddy issues, Warren? Warren: Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.

Humans see what they want to see.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, Can I have your apple?

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper