Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
perspective gratitude positive-thinking complaints
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
man perspective
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
perspective common-sense philosophers
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
perspective open-mindedness
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends.. On whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
perspective happily-ever-after
What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.
perspective
If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.
Maybe belief is the biggest lie. In ages past, the earliest philosophers tried to explain the stars in the sky and the world around them. One of them conceived of the notion that the universe was mounted on giant crystal spheres controlled by a giant machine, which explained the movements of the heavens. He was laughed at and told that such a machine would be so huge and noisy that everyone would hear it. He simply replied that we are born with that noise all around us, and that we are so used to hearing it that we cannot hear it at all.
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
perspective balance
.. Consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective..
perspective writing-process writing-advice
He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.
youth perspective
After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.
funny humor perspective universe
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
perspective patience photography
Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.
truth reality perspective fact
It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.
If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way.
life perspective
Those two little words -- says you -- are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you who says it. You. And what do you know?
perspective subjectivity argument
Because that world's gone. The world where people walked around whistling that music. All the madrigal singers in the world can't make that other one real again. It's like dinosaurs. We can put them back together perfectly, bone for bone, but we don't know what they smelled like, what kind of sounds they made, or how big they really looked standing in the grass under all those fossil fern trees. Even the sunlight must have been different, and the wind. What can bones tell you about a kind of wind that doesn't blow anymore?
perspective nostalgia
In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.
perspective painting
We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes].
One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.
Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
perspective obstacles
All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
stories perspective on-fiction
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