Quotes About Perspective

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards

The movement of a man's finger is as important or unimportant as the most terrible catastrophe, for as against the Infinite both are of the same dimension.

Normally, routine is the common element of daily life everywhere, the element that prevents man from reexamining his circumstances, because human beings are creatures of habit. People become accustomed to, and learn to live with, not only good things but also those that are – even in their own eyes – undesirable.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

The average person has the most fear of death and in reality thinks most rarely about it. The most prominent one occupies himself with it most persistently, but nevertheless fears it the least. The one lives blindly day to day, sinning away, only to sink down before the grim reaper. The other carefully observes his approach but then looks him in the eye, calm and composed.

N?u ngÆ°Æ¡i th?ng ngÆ°Æ¡i không c?n gi?i thích, nhÆ°ng n?u ngÆ°Æ¡i thua ngÆ°Æ¡i cÅ©ng không có quy?n gi?i thích.

In scrutinizing the past, we must be careful not to be overly impressed by external results that readily strike the eye, while ignoring the less visible causes of these results.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

When you point a finger at someone, always remember that three fingers are pointing back at you.

That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth.

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.

Niekuomet netik?kite, kad mums pražudo didel?s klaidos. Tai padaro mažos klaidel?s.

A man once told me that all books should end at chapter seventy-seven.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper. Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy. I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

When Lascelles suggested to George VI that he give Hardinge six months' leave to reflect on his position, the king replied, "Certainly not—he might come back.")

The difference between an opportunity and a problem is the individual that first faces the situation.

its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

As any magician knows, it is not the smoke and mirrors that trick people; it is that the human mind makes assumptions and misunderstands them as truths.

I know that no one's story is simple. And no single story tells the whole truth.

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life" Margot said. I smiled at her, not fully understanding what she was saying but feeling a small ping of comprehension, an olive pit smacking the wall of my consciousness. "You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself" Margot promised.