Perspective Quotes
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"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
"One person's craziness is another person's reality."
"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
"If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."
"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."
"Stairs, are they going up or are they going down? They’re so confusing! If love were a physical thing, it would be stairs."
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise."
"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,"
"There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that."
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
"I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet completely agreeing with me. That’s how I knew you loved me."
"I got a zero. That’s like a perfect ten—it’s only one away from being flawless. Remember this next time you think you have nothing."
"Based on the questions we both answered, we’re a 0% love match. That means we’re 100% compatible, once I enlighten her to the correct perspective on life."
"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them."
"Just when you thought you’d considered all the angles, life goes from a square to a cube. Love should also be 3D."
"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."
"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."
"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."
"You have the ability to choose your reactions."
"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."
"Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there."
"Your life is a print-out of your thoughts."
"I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean."
"Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you."
"I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind."
"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it."
"Women should have nipples on their butts. From a design perspective, I think it would revolutionize the fashion industry."
"Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels."
"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."
"At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act."
"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency."
"The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits."
"I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be."
"The story of my family. . .changes with the teller."
"There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."
"When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?"
"He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes."
"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)"
"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."
"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."
"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."
"Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table."
"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."
"One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light."
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