Quotes About Perspective

À l'envers des nuages, il y a toujours un ciel.

A?a zicea Fontenelle: un trandafir n-a v?zut niciodat? un gr?dinar murind.

Hakikat, bizim en fazla hoÅŸumuza giden yalan?n ta kendisidir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

M'sieur Ibrahim, quand je dis que c'est un truc de gens riches, le sourire, je veux dire que c'est un truc pour les gens heureux. - Eh bien, c'est là que tu te trompes. C'est sourire, qui rend heureux. [- M. Ibrahim, when I say a smile is a rich people thing, I mean it's a happy people thing. - Well, that's where you're wrong. Smiling is what makes you happy.]

A chciaÅ'byÅ› ?y? wiecznie? - Nie w ten sposób! Sze??dziesiÄ…t czy siedemdziesiÄ…t lat czegoÅ› takiego zupeÅ'nie wystarczy. Ale gdybym byÅ' bogaty, tak. - Przecie? bogactwo doczesne jest niczym. - SÅ'owo bogacza.

Die meisten Menschen sehen das Problem der Liebe in erster Linie als das Problem, selbst geliebt zu werden, statt zu lieben und lieben zu können.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

Erkenntnis] ist nur möglich, wenn ich mein eigenes Interesse transzendiere und den anderen so sehe, wie er wirklich ist.

Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a long time ago.

Lee had never realized how hideous most of the world was until Rome.

she had to admit the essential difference between Iain and herself: he believed in the possibility of a carnation-strewn, uncomplicated life, and Lola did not. perhaps Iain had thought he could convince her, but grew weary of the endeavor.

She'd been doing the same things for so long: auditioning, seducing, preening. What if she turned it around, and let the world try to win her for a change?

Life is like a puzzle, sometimes you have to take a step back, look at it and see if you are missing any pieces.

Even if things are common, there's more than one side to them. There's more than one side to one-sided things. One-sided people too.

I'm an author, Calista. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that a truth only makes sense when it is revealed in the form of a story. Without that context it is simply a random event with no meaning.

One day you're young with all your fine plans for the future. The next you're in the future and it doesn't look at all the way you thought it would.

Some people find that reading novels is very therapeutic precisely because it does allow one to view reality from an entirely different perspective.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Grudges are like superstitions. You know they don't make sense, but you cling to them, anyway." We

I've often thought madness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Sometimes I think if there was a third sex men wouldn't get so much as a glance from me.

In a road-mender's hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: "La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau." ("Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.")

To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind', first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community; second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near; and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.