Quotes About Perspective

aphorism—"A photograph is a secret about a secret; the more it tells you, the less you know"—

It feels like it's been a long day but it isn't even lunch time yet.

Atheists seek truth; theists ignore it.

People doom and damn themselves with their own perverse and pessimistic beliefs about reality.

Revolutions always appear impossible in prospect and inevitable in retrospect.

Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.

the behavior we see as "diminished" in elderly parents, clients, and friends actually exists to do a very specific developmental job.

What's silly is everybody trying to live longer," Gladys said. "They think they're adding years to their lives. What they don't realize is that all those years get added on the shit end.

So you're saying that death is the kick in the pants our species needs to not turn into vegetables.

as far as Buzz is concerned, the universe is two things: me and not me.

The other things you don't think about are the opposite things, the things that aren't part of your background, that fall so far outside your personal experience that you don't give them a second thought.

All their lives they had been taught to think of sight as an anathema.

Money is a headache for both rich and poor people. They're simply different types of headaches.

Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.

The place where we spend most of our lives moulds our priorities and the way we perceive our surroundings. A human-engineered habitat of asphalt, concrete and glass reinforces our belief that we lie outside of and above nature, immune from uncertainty and the unexpected of the wild.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

What I liked was that the game was not always on the goal line out there. It wasn't always life and death. There were time-out signs. It was a nicer game.

You'd better find a way to laugh at life, because it will certainly make you cry.

Whether anyone believed it or not, David felt he had to wait on God's word, and that Old Guy in the Sky takes his own, sweet time.

They didn't believe me," I exclaimed when I saw Gary. "I told the truth, but they didn't want to hear!

Cette vie que tu as réduite à des petits tracas, à de légers soucis qui occupent ton esprit étroit comme l'anneau que tu portes à ton annulaire gauche.