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Perspective Quotes
"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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"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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"If you continue to concentrate so deeply on the negative factors you are unable to acknowledge all the positive results."
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"To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing."
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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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"Life is never a competition."
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"The greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand."
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"You don't need to climb the mountain; you need to see it."
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"You can't believe what a lovely planet we have until you see her from outside."
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"My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world."
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"Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance."
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"When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile."
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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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"You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life."
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"Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence."
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"Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible."
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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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"Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories."
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"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."
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"Sitting in seat 14A, in the sun, I float on a full-moon, tidal joy unlike anything I've ever experienced. I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on Earth- every day I have ever had- was secretly sunny after all....I feel like I've just flown 600 miles per hour head-on into the most beautiful metaphor of my life: If you fly high enough, if you get above the clouds, it's never-ending summer."
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"Only by having a sense of history's trajectory (even if one does not believe in Parousia) can one love earthly reality and believe-with charity-that there is still room for Hope."
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"Losses are comparative imagination only makes them of any moment."
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"The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life-or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else's life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window-is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people."
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"You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite."
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"It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable."
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"He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers had taught him to look into the logical relations of things, and analyse the processes which shaped his thoughts and fancies. Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."
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"The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths."
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"Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them."
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"Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain."
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"As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself?"
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"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens."
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"For it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown."
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"Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay."
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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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"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."
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"Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame..."
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"What if there is no such thing as other people's wrongness..... ?"
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"Once we lose our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe which dwarfs -- in time, in space, and in potential -- the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."
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"A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest."
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"It's funny how cucumber water can taste so much better than pickle juice, even though they come from the same source."
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"Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now."
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"Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on."
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"It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one."
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"As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble."
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"Seeing either Obstacles or Opportunities is a CHOICE!"
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"Where you stand depends on where you sit."
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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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"A knife is cutlery in one hand and a weapon in another."
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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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"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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