It’s good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,—this is the very struggle of progress.

Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time. We cannot get to an appointment before we arrive—or after. It is only at...

You have the ability to choose your reactions.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was...

And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still...

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let’s keep it in perspective.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends his life drawing profiles will end up believing that man has one...

What seems like a flaw is merely our higher consciousness telling us we’re not looking at it in the right light yet.

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.

Thanks, that’s a great perspective.

Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.

Becoming a lake has put a lot of things in perspective for me.

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met...

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I’ve learned far too much to know everything.

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of...

Dreams are fragile. Reality is a clumsy postman.

Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic – condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.

You can’t see the world from somebody else’s point of view and not be changed.

Indeed, I find that distance lends perspective and I often write better of a place when I am some distance from it. One can be so overwhelmed by the forest as to miss seeing the...

We often think that there is just one way to look at things – the way we always have. In fact, there are an infinite number of ways to look at most everything. An open...

Like it! Yes—the way I’d like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won’t be rich, and I won’t live in them cussed smothery houses. I like...

From the sky, everything looked fake. The buildings were doll houses. The cars were Matchbox racers. People scuttled about, but they weren’t really people anymore. Their little lives meant absolutely nothing from this altitude.

I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

There is wonder in everything, the only thing you need to change to see it is your perspective.

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes...

Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time.

I don’t think we ever look at things from a male-female perspective, but it’s pretty obvious our women have done some amazing things here.

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next – trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of...

Experience by itself proves nothing. If a man doubts whether he is sleeping or waking, no experiment can solve his doubt, since every experiment may itself be part of the dream. Experience proves this, or...

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

What is a man but another man’s memory

Art brings you closer to whatever your present is, your own breathing being.

I’d proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge,...

In God’s eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Pseudo-artists think that being an artist means opposing whatever seems to be an establishment. That is not creative at all. True creativity is the ability to gain perspective wherever you may have missed it before.

Those are significant barriers for us. But … we’re taking a long-term perspective. We’re going take our time to build our brand, build our customers. We still believe this market has a great potential.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see.

Happiness and Unhappiness are not things that just happen to you, they are a choice. They are a perspective. Smile, and think about that for a moment. Now smile some more. Not that hard is...

Nothing is clear now. Something must be the matter with my way of viewing things. I have no middle view. Either I fix on a detail and see it as thought it were magnified —...

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Sometimes you just have to stop and take in your surroundings. Really look at where you are in life, otherwise it’s just going to pass you by. Regret is a heavy word to live with.”...

I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing...

It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on...