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Perspective Quotes
"How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective."
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"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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"The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller."
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"People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that's out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!"
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"Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings."
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"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
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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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"An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load."
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"Well, you finally got me," Helen had whispered to him, tearfully, but Garp had sprawled there, on his back on the wrestling mat, wondering who had gotten whom."
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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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"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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"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."
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"If there was anything the last year had taught her-if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her-it was that perspective was everything. If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story."
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"Wise is the man who has the potential for height in his muscles but who renounces climbing in his consciousness. By virtue of his gaze, he has all hills, and by virtue of his position, all valleys. The sun that gilds the summits will gild them more for him than for someone at the top who must endure the bright light; and the palace perched high in the woods will be more beautiful for those who see it from the valley than for those who, imprisoned in its rooms, forget it."
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"Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?''Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?''You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder."
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"Money will never be as precious as this one life we live."
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"This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain."
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"When you are fulfilled within, big problems look small and when you have a vacuum within small problems look big!!!"
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"Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing."
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"He would sit down and consider the situation carefully. Not only did this help to identify the solution to the problem, but it also gave him the opportunity to remind himself that things were not really as bad as they seemed; it was all a question of perspective. Sitting down and looking up at the sky for a few minutes--not at any particular part of the sky, but just at the sky in general--at the vast, dizzying, empty sky of Botswana, cut human problems down to size."
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"Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective."
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"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point."
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"The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit."
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"You've seen what you've seen you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world."
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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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"I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced."
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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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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."
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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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"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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"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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"I know many versions of truth that explain one fact."
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"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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"The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
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"Most of the things that go wrong in life don't have a lasting impact. Remind yourself that if it won't matter in ten years'time, it doesn't matter today."
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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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"A calamity can horrify an individual who is obsessed about life destruction and that particular individual could not indulge the beauty of living for the rest of his or her natural life."
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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."
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"To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination. An inability to see the world in terms other than those that the establishment has set out for you: If you're not a Bushie you're a Taliban. If you don't love us, you hate us. If you're not Good you're Evil. If you're not with us, you're with the terrorists."
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"The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both."
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"From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed."
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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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"When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder."
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"When I have a wrong attitude, I look at life humanly. When I have a right attitude, I look at life divinely."
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"It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light."
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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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"Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening."
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