Quotes about Perspective

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

He was sure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.

His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

If someone comes to you with a gift, and you do not accept it, who does the gift belong to? - asked the Samurai.

You don't have to climb a mountain to find out whether or not it's high.

The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

we all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss