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Perspective Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light."
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"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."
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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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"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 view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window."
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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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"Distinguish between getting lost and losing your way. The first is a shift in direction. The second is the absence of perspective. Cultivate perspective and you will be able to steer home."
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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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"There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things."
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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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"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 old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller."
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"The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide."
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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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"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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"An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load."
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"You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside."
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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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"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 greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand."
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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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"You don't need to climb the mountain; you need to see it."
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"Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a whisper: sometimes we don't fully see that in Christ, because of Christ, through Christ, He does give us all things good - until we have the perspective of years.In time, years, dust settles.In memory, ages, God emerges."
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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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"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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"If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point."
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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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"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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"Some people see the cup as half empty. Some people see the cup as half full. I see the cup as too large."
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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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"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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"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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"Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance."
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"Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be."
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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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"If you continue to concentrate so deeply on the negative factors you are unable to acknowledge all the positive 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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"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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"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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"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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