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Perspective Quotes
"He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical."
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"No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point."
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"When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude."
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"True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves."
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"Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?"
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"If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races."
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"A fresh pair of eyes can often find problems."
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"I still write the same way and have the same perspective."
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"What few rules appear to be in place are all made up."
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"If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer."
7
"I know many versions of truth that explain one fact."
7
"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
7
"Right knowledge (samikit) means right vision. What does the wrong vision do? It will make one say, 'this person caused me a loss. This person profited me. That person insulted me. That person hurt me. This person made me happy.' There is no one out there giving you pain or pleasure! Indeed, it is all within you."
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"With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end."
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"Life is never a competition."
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"It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light."
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"The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important."
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"Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information."
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"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."
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"It will be awesome, if the people had the chance all stuff which surround them to see them as larger as possible so to be differences like you are a mice or something like this.... - I'm sure that people will see stuff which as normal size everything they won't see!"
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"Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness."
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"The greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand."
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"Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable."
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"When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy."
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"Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad."
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"Life is never fast track."
5
"Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance."
5
"If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light."
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"There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing."
5
"You least obtain something great from the great thing you regard as least though such great thing can give you something great."
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"Your imagination and some masturbation is a much better alternative to finding out what kind of person a bit of casual sex transforms you into."
5
"Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for."
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"When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad."
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"It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one."
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"Whether the glass is half empty or half full, you have the power to fill it up."
4
"Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness."
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"As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble."
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"Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight."
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"Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world."
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"There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things."
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"Look at the world through your vision not through the misperceptions of others."
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"It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things."
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"Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow."
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"All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to."
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"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."
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"My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan ."
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"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell."
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"I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference."
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