Quotes About Perspective

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real.

Denis Lacorne

What I've learned is that life is too short and movies are too long.

We do not commit to believing what the biblical writers believe; we commit to believing what the affirmations of the biblical text are.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Get a grip, dude, you're losing bad." "Depends how you look at it." "Only so many ways to look at a fourteen-seven score." Wyatt shrugged, palming the ball in both hands. "Way I figure, I have a beautiful wife inside, and you're playing footsie with your engaged, possibly mentally ill adversary." He chucked the ball at Jake, grinning. "You do the math.

Life on the Reservation, he observed, was "particularly hard on those who lack a sense of humor.

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

I am so small, a speck of dust moving across the huge world. The world a speck of dust in the universe. Are you holding the universe? You hold onto my smallness. How do you grasp it, how does it not slip away? I know so little. You have brought me so far.

I moonbathed diligently, as others sunbathe.

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that 'the views of nature held by any people determine all their institutions

The world is an infinitely better place when we don't criticize the actions of others, but instead imagine walking in their shoes. Native Americans say: "Walk a mile in my moccasins.

When a narrative chimes with pre-existing beliefs, it can seem so self-evidently true that all conflicting evidence is discarded.

Even rich people can only stand in one room at a time.

May shook her head. "Don't imagine you can change a man unless he's wearing a diaper.

I'd like to say I found a sublime beauty in it all, but I didn't. And yet. And yet, this life we'd built filled our car

When you see everything you realise nothing means anything.