Quotes About Perspective

When I asked my extra-terrestrial friend why he took me in, he merely replied, What alternative did you have?

I don't differentiate between optimism and pessimism and am at quite a loss as to which of the two characterises me. When I awake each morning I thank the lord he did not take my soul during the night. If harm befalls me during the night, I thank him that it was no worse. So which am I, a pessimist or an optimist?

Jacob, my old friend came first. he was sad. I shouted down to him, The stake, old friend of a lifetime, do something! But we all sit on one, was his reply. I don't see you on one, I objected. And we see nobody else's either. Each of us is alone, on his own stake. This is the stake we share.

If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.

What was Art, after all, if not simply giving out what you have inside you? ... Wasn't a bunch of carrots, yes, a bunch of carrots, studied directly and painted simply, personally, as you see it yourself, as good as any of the run-of-the-mill, made-to-measure Ecole des Beaux-Arts stuff, painted with tobacco juice? The day was not far off when one solitary, original carrot might be pregnant with revolution! (35)

What is a source of sorrow to some is a source of joy to others.

El mundo es un conjunto de ojos, oídos y bocas, que se cierran para lo bueno y se abren para lo malo gustosísimas.

The stories of our lives can be told in so many ways, but no one account, no matter how carefully rendered, is completely true. Words are, at best, only an outline

It's easy to get stuck in one track. When something tosses you out of it, you begin to realize there's scenery you haven't noticed.

And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering- and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not in the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.

Es una tontería lamentarse de una desgracia con veinte años de anticipación.

I tell you I have nearly attained MY heaven; and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncovered by me.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded;

I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

melancholy sweeter than common joy.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. 

?udno je kako navika može oblikovati naš ukus i mišljenje; mnogi ne bi mogli zamisliti da postoji sre?a u potpunoj odvojenosti od svijeta...

sami ?ete mo?i, kao i ja, donijeti sud o svemu ili barem tako misliti, a to je isto.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. 

Lako vam je popustiti njihovim prolaznim hirovima sve dok se oni svojski trude da predvide sve vaše želje. Me?utim, može se naposljetku dogoditi da se posva?ate oko ne?ega što je jednako važno za obje strane, pa ?e se tada oni, koje nazivate slabima, pokazati nepopustljivima kao i vi.

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