Quotes About Perspective

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

Genç olmak bu olmal?, önünde y?llar olmas?. Yani hiçbir ÅŸey. Derin bir çukur. Ama içine düÅŸtüÄŸün bir çukur deÄŸil. Çukur yukar?da, kar??nda.

Because the only reality is subjective.

Don't count your chickens before they turn into KFC

Don't go chasing after daydreams when the reality is much more suitable and willing.

Humans have so many concerns about being grown-up. Emotions are emotions, whether you're an adult or a child.

One thing I've come to learn in life--happiness isn't a gift. You have to seek it out, to cultivate it. There's never any guarantee in life, and joy? It's not right.

Catch more flies with honey . . . although I'd never quite understood the value of the expression. Mother had used it all the time while we were growing up and even as a child, I'd questioned why anybody would want to catch flies unless you were a goblin and used them for croutons. Linda

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

posit by W. B. Yeats: "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

Even my loves are measured by wars. I say, "That happened after the Second World War." "We met a day before the Six Day War." I would never say "before the peace of '45-'48" or "in the middle of the peace of '56-'67." Yet the knowledge of peace makes its way from one place to another like children's games, which are so much alike everywhere you go.

Nunca les doy el infierno. Sólo les digo la verdad y ellos piensan que es el infierno. — Harry S. Truman

Todo el mundo piensa en cambiar el mundo, pero nadie piensa en cambiarse a sí mismo. — Leo Tolstoy

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

But history is that rare woman who doesn't like to look at herself in the mirror. History, when she finds herself in front of one, wipes and wipes its surface at though in this way she might change her face to something better

Who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy.

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?

And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?

Everything used to revolve around the sun; now I knew it all revolved around me-slowly, blissfully, squinting its eyes.

But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?

How do you know nonsense isn't a good thing? if human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily previous could have come from it.

It's clear: if there is no good reason for enviousness, the denominator of the fraction of happiness is brought to zero and the fraction is transformed into a glorious infinity.

O percurso natural para se passar da nulidade à grandeza é esquecermo-nos de que somos um grama e sentirmos que somos a milionésima parte duma tonelada.