Quotes About Perspective

I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It's a talent of mine. - Lothaire

Indeed, no one should see too much of their own history or future.

There is no better way to gain perspective on one's life than by gazing upon the heavens.

Every person defines reality in his own way. And every person figures that anybody who doesn't agree with him has got to be irrational.

I'm convinced that each human being more or less builds his own reality. You are what you believe you are. We make images in our minds of what will be---based on what we believe or want, what we're afraid of---

it depends on whose reality you're using for rules. You just have to remember that, and then you can see that nothing should be taken absolutely seriously. Personally, I always like to use my own reality as a standard.

What the mind believes the body will often make reality. Dr. Woodhouse to Caulder and Ginny.

So every person sets up his own rules, and then uses them to judge everybody else. You just have to realize that.There is no real normal. You have to just decide what you believe. And stay open to new ideas. For the time being I am using my own concept of reality as a guide. Ginny to Caulder and Micheal

It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside.

If she looked into a fractured mirror, she'd see what he saw.

Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

Darkness does not always equal bad and Light does not always mean good.

So, go talk to flowers about bulls and such, Aphrodite said. I'll go talk to flowers, Stevie Rae said.

Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

she looked about as hard to get as a haircut and at about the same

Zixi made no reply, but she agreed with the alligator, who called after her sleepily, Isn't it fortunate we cannot have everything we are stupid enough to wish for?

She kept her youth to a marvelous degree. Perhaps this was because she always seemed to preserve that attitude of delighted surprise towards life which most of us leave behind in childhood, an attitude which not only made Rosemary herself seem young but flung a pleasing illusion of youth over the consciousness of everyone who talked to her.

I'm not interested to believe in something, but to understand the people who believe.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

Those who remember are usually the unhappy ones. Only those who are able to forget, find the most joy in life.

Well, I cannot claim any great experience in life,' the Saw-Horse answered for himself; 'but I seem to learn very quickly, and often it occurs to me that I know more than any of those around me.' 'Perhaps you do,' said the Emperor; 'for experience does not always mean wisdom. - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 89 chapter 11