Quotes About Perspective

The great gulf between the story told by the young reporters and the story that military people knew as their truth may be the reason that, almost a half century later, the Vietnam War remains the source of a cultural rift in America. Today a small but growing group of writers is looking back and finding a different story than the one told by many reporters of the day.

Happiness is a way of traveling and not a destination

I have always pondered a tragic law of adolescence. (On second thought, the law probably applies to all ages to some extent). That law: People fall in love at the same time—often at the same stunning moment—but they fall out of love at different times. One is left sadly juggling the pieces of a fractured heart while the other has danced away.

Not yet, but they made a very interesting offer." Her green eyes were amazing. Absolutely without bottom.

Fifteen minutes later I parked behind Teri Haines's Saturn and went to the door. I kind of expected to find the house in smoking ruins, but I guess Charles had passed out from overeating. Lighten up, Cole. He's only a kid. Sure. They probably said that when Attila was a kid, too.

Still, people sometimes do strange things for strange reasons, and I decided to see what Mrs. Louise Earle had to offer. I expected that she would support her son's claims, but in the doing perhaps she would add something to give them greater credence.

We're not so different." The girl burst out laughing. "Ohmigod! Oh my God—dude! Maybe you're high!" Pike put the car in gear, but kept his foot on the brake. Their sameness seemed obvious. "You want to be seen; me, I want to be invisible. It's all the same." The girl stared at him, then straightened herself the way he had straightened himself. She said, "An idealist.

If the evidence did not exist right in front of him, it didn't exist, period. And following from that would come his belief in the essential wisdom of the common person, who also knew the world only from the grassroots level in the most immediate, concrete way.

Geography does not determine individual character, but it does matter.

The news coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami indicates how the South China Sea may appear to the world through the media's distorting mirror.

Related lessons: Don't go hunting ghosts, and don't get too deep into a situation where your civilizational advantage is of little help.

Geography informs, rather than determines. Geography, therefore, is not synonymous with fatalism.

politicians were prisoners of misguided

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

If you wanted to know what a man was thinking, check the view from his favorite spot.

One thing I've learned in a very long life, Mr. Crews, is that there's never enough.

Yeah, well, you believe what you want to. I live in the real world.

Cuando aprendas a aceptar en lugar de esperar, tendrás menos decepciones".

Los animales aceptan y los humanos esperan. Nunca oirás a un conejo decir: espero que el sol salga esta mañana para poder ir al lago a jugar. Si el sol sale o no sale, no estropeara el día al conejo. Es feliz siendo un conejo. El caballero pensó en esto. No recordaba a ninguna persona que fuera feliz simplemente por ser una persona".

Después de todo, no se puede contentar a todo el mundo.

What is it? asked the knight. Life, Merlin replied. Life? Yes, said the wise magician. Did it not first seem bitter, then, as you tasted more of it, was it not pleasant? The knight nodded. Yes, and the last swallows were quite delicious. That was when you began to accept what you were drinking. Are you saying that life is good when you accept it? Is it not? replied Merlin, raising an eyebrow in amusement.

Un don para ser un don debe ser aceptado, de no ser así, es como una carga para las personas

Si [...] estamos dispuestos a renunciar a la idea de quién creemos ser cada uno, no habrá oposición alguna entre ambos.