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Perspective Quotes
"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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"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point."
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"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."
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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."
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"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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"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 view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
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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."
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"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."
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"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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"My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan ."
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"An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load."
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"I just wish moments weren't so fleeting!' Isaac called to the man on the roof, 'They pass so quickly!' 'Fleeting?!' responded the tilling man, 'Moments? They pass quickly?! . . . Why, once a man is finished growing, he still has twenty years of youth. After that, he has twenty years of middle age. Then, unless misfortune strikes, nature gives him twenty thoughtful years of old age. Why do you call that quickly?' And with that, the tilling man wiped his sweaty brow and continued tilling; and the dejected Isaac continued wandering. 'Stupid fool!' Isaac muttered quietly to himself as soon as he was far enough away not to be heard."
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"A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest."
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"I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side."
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"Money does not determine our worth."
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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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"Life is never fast track."
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"Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance."
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"It may be that we're not seeing the wonder in life because all we're doing is wondering how we're going to survive life."
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"The language of Cat's generation was far harder than that of her own, and more pithily correct: in their terms, he was a hunk. But why, she wondered, should anybody actually want a hunk, when non-hunks were so much more interesting?"
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"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."
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"While it's five in the morning here, it's also five in the evening somewhere in China-proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective."
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"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself."
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"But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view."
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"For you to exist on earth, downplay on the religious factor."
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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."
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"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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"Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources."
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"There is a different world on the other side of your present attitude."
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"Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world."
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"Look at the world through your vision not through the misperceptions of others."
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"Build your life not on the things of today, but on the things of tomorrow."
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"Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!"
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"I ask, 'Is the cup half-empty or half-full?' And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup."
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"A knife is cutlery in one hand and a weapon in another."
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"I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced."
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"Everyone sees drama from his own perspective."
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"Sometimes you need to move away before you can see where you are."
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"When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat."
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"From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed."
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"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."
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"Suspending moral judgement is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity. Not that the novelist utterly denies that moral judgement is legitimate, but that she refuses it a place in the novel."
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"He has his head in the clouds. He must live in a skyscraper."
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"My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world."
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"Chances are that whatever that you are worried about-be it a person or a thing-isn't worried about you."
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"An eagle can mock a lion only because of its wings."
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