Quotes About Perspective

La perspectiva es un lujo que sólo pueden permitirse las mentes que no están atormentadas por un enjambre de demonios.

In my experience, men who undestand women as well as you seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

Sad stories make good books," she said.

The Chinese say its better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Perhaps she wrote that life is really lived through dreams and intuitions, not fate and circumstance.

our Lord satisfied the stomach before satisfying the eye, but the imagination acts in the reverse fashion

Envy is secret admiration. An admirer who feels that he cannot become happy by abandoning himself to it chooses to be envious of that which he admires. So he speaks another language wherein that which he actually admires is a trifle, a rather stupid, insipid, peculiar, and exaggerated thing. Admiration is happy self-surrender; envy is unhappy self-assertion.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Nuestra vida siempre expresa el resultado de nuestros pensamientos dominantes (Søren Kierkegaard)

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different amounts depending on who was seeing things and how.

I just couldn't do it- break all the rules. Blow everything up. The world doesn't end, Bree said quietly. Amazing, but it really doesn't.

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.   —Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. What happened to my mirror? I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over.

Newt had said I loved Ivy more than the church. I wasn't going to deny it, but there were all kinds of love, and how shallow would I be if my anchor to reality was a hunk of real estate? It was the people who were there that made it mean something.

Listen before you draw your battle lines, lest you alienate your allies.

I'd rather judge a person on why they make the choices they do rather than the cold facts of what they choose.

What do you want me to do? Marry you? People grow up! Move away! I'm going to college, not the moon!

I'd rather judge a person on why they make the choices they do rather than the cold facts of what they choose.

Sometimes it takes a two-by-four across your head to realize what you want isn't what you'll end up with if you get it.