Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

Was I like honey thinking it’s a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.

…otherwise, one of you, most likely the man, would go wandering off on a trajectory of his own, taking his addictive body with him and leaving you with bad withdrawal, which you could counteract by...

My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.

A dreadful thing one day befell me when a horse came to stand on my toe. Having no power to remove him, I found that I could not go.An awful thing sometime later befell me...

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things...

zoom lens effect,” in which the focus is entirely on oneself, to the exclusion of external considerations.

Perspective makes all the difference. It’s not what you look at; it’s what you see… Remember that the sun never actually sets; it’s our perspective that makes it appear to. Our sunset is another’s sunrise....

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But...

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may...

Assume the worst. About everybody. But don’t let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone...

If any man is tempted to think – as one might be tempted to who read only contemporaries – that “Christianity” is a word of so many meanings that it means nothing at all, he...

Trust is always a risk, but when placed in the right people after a trial period where they prove themselves worthy of it, it is a reward transcendent of all the emotional mire that bogs...

We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful.

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

It’s brainless to assume that making changes to your window’s view will give a new 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...

Narratives are the primary way in which we make sense of our lives, as opposed to, for example schema,cognition, beliefs, constructs. Definition of narrative include the important element of giving meaning to events and experiences...

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...

To me art means power to sway people not with my words but with a mere picture. Art means expression, not my own but of the subjects. Art means truth; because when you see a...

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

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...

Reading can break us out of the tunnel vision of the narrow specialty and lead us into many intriguing and important avenues of thought.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I’ll go right on thinking I’m descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror...

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of...

Inventions are not solely the making of material things, inventions are also the mental unleashing of ideas by a genuis with a sixth sense.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

For human nature is such that grief and pain – even simultaneously suffered – do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser behind the greater, according to a definite...

I understand from his [Musharraf] perspective that he cannot accept a flood of Afghans coming. I accept that. But those people are really in need … and the process is going too slow. We have...

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can’t penetrate beneath the surface of things. Because something is recent, they think it is...

I had treated my temporary earthly problems so emotionally and seriously that they became major energy zappers, brain drains, and heart breakers. I knew I was a Christian living in this world, but things didn’t...

Every broken heart has one time or another asked, “What is important to me now?

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

This is the same establishment that all those who want, or rather aspire to, to be literary figures of the century, artists, painters and sculptors want acceptance from and approval. They want to be looked...

Your perspectives change your realities.

Perspective alone can make an experience positive or negative, but regardless of which you let it become, it can only have as much power over your outlook on life as you give it.

There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself – in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love – and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing...

Sometimes it takes asking others for input to find out you have to ultimately look within yourself for the answers to the questions only you know the truth about…we choose the information we share. So,...

No two persons ever read the same book.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an...

The crazy creatives are the creatives who never go completely mad. They aren’t so easily disheartened by the seemingly endless amounts of scrutiny that creative individuals tend to receive because they, like insanity, are the...

I am a rebel! But I don’t want people to agree with my views, because if everyone agreed with me then I wouldn’t be rebellious anymore. Did you hear what I heard? Because I heard...

Gerai suprantu, kad kiekvienas žmogus turi individualius savo patyrimų aruodus ir neretas, ko sava akim nėra matęs, nelabai tam įtiki. Todėl nieko nepadarysi, jei į aikštės viduryje pastatytą skulptūrą kiekvienas žiūri tik iš savo pusės...