Quotes tagged ‘Perspective’

(285 total)

“Life is full of insignificant disappointments.”

“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, ha…”

— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com

“Half of bravery is perspective.”

— Veronica Roth, amazon.com

“Evil depends on where you're standing.”

— Veronica Roth, amazon.com

“I wanted to look at everything through her eyes. I do this before I bring someone new into my life; I try to get a sense of who I am so that I can make it easier for them to know me.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

“John Keating: '"Seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." Why does the writer use these lines?' Charlie Dalton: 'Because he's in a hurry?' John Keating: 'No. Ding! Thank you for playing anyway. Because we are food for worms, lads. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this r…”

— Robin Williams, Gale Hansen, John Keating, Charlie Dalton, amazon.com

“John Keating: 'Why do I stand up here? Anybody?' Dalton: 'To feel taller!' John Keating: 'No! Thank you for playing Mr. Dalton. I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.'”

— Robin Williams, Gale Hansen, John Keating, Dalton, amazon.com

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer.”

— Sigmund Wollman, amazon.com

“In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act”

— Caroline Caldwel, twitter.com

“Life’s too short to give a shit”

— Geoff Ramsey, madkingrian.tumblr.com

“Sometimes it’s not the pain that makes you suffer. It’s your own negative thoughts that make it worse.”

— hairosebear, hairosebear.deviantart.com

“When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.”

— Patrick Stump, twitter.com

“Not everything happens for a reason. Some things happen purely because evil exists in the world. That did not happen to you because you deserved it. It didn’t happen to you because you needed to learn a lesson. There are lessons you can learn without experiencing pain.”

— caringsuggestions, wonderr-lustt.tumblr.com

“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“The way people see you is just as important as the way you see yourself.”

— Paul Hudson, elitedaily.com

“There is good in everything, if only we look for it.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com

“Pretend it happened to someone else. How would you explain it to them? What advice would you give them?”

— Epictetus, amazon.com

“You see people dropping out of the workforce and you see people try to start their own business.”

— Bernard Weinstein, dallasnews.com

“Imagine the bad thing happened to someone else. How much easier is it to write it off and be calm about it?”

— Epictetus, amazon.com

“If we could first know where we are and whether we are ready, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.”

— Abraham Lincoln, amazon.com