An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

My step-dad’s rendition of events was uncontested even by me and therefore, it became our truth. Truth I’d never be able to prove or change; truth that protected him from suspicion and penalty. Truth that...

I’m a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he...

From his perspective we know what he would have said — he had no regrets.

Moon is a shining ball,from the window on my wall.Moon is blemish-laden,from the terrace of my mansion.Moon is a cold flame,from the porthole of my airplane.Yet I have heard,Moon is muse to philosophy brothers,Moon is...

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the...

I start to think, ‘It’s awful being too poor to even buy my own dress for homecoming.’ But that’s instantly swept away by another thought: ‘I’m so lucky that someone cates enough to loan me...

It’s only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.

There isn’t anything yet that I would necessarily do different, but from my perspective that comes from the planning and thought we put into the home.

As I leave the gardenI take with me a renewed view,And a quiet soul.

…we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

I don’t understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.

What do you mean, ‘Angle of Repose?’ she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother’s life, and I said it was the angle at which a man or woman finally lies down....

He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he...

The Australian dollar’s downward trend is still in place. From a technical perspective, the Australian dollar has failed to break 75.80 cents, which would have otherwise signaled the end of its downward trend.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Starting over is not a sign of failure. I look at it this way: A person enrolled at the wrong life college, underwent some hellish classes, passed a lot of difficult tests, majored in perspective,...

Incidentally, the world is magical.Magic is simply what’s off our human scale… at the moment.

Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…

It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you’ve focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement

We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

Everything in life is nonsense. It’s just a question of perspective.

No two people see things the same.

The trouble with poetry is it’s often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who...

Keep a little perspective guys. This isn’t Enron. This isn’t WorldCom,

Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through...

golden day” perspective helps you prioritize.

You can’t know what an experience will mean to future-you until you are future-you. You need millions of seconds of perspective, which ultimately, only time can buy.

I thought it peculiar how one new experience can alter your perspective on places you’ve known your whole life.

Instead of thanking God for my two strong legs that are able to run and jump and climb, I whined about my “thunder thighs” and “thick” ankles. Instead of rejoicing that I have two capable...

When we saw a destitute-looking man trying to sell worn flip-flops, I vowed never to complain about a job again. When I considered the steady paycheck and quality of life it provided, my past gripes...

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.The usual way of looking at...

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and — if at all possible — speak a few sensible words.

…I look out at the world through your transparent face…

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot...

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—’Come out unto...

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

some students look at the problems that they’re facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just a professor giving me a bad grade or someone not sitting next to...

When you don’t have honesty in love then there is no communication. Honesty is improvisation of the heart; anything less is a well thought out and rehearsed script.

You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.

I’m always happy when I’m surrounded by water, I think I’m a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it...

Changing yourself changes everything.

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought.