Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it’s really a ‘how to’ for achieving success. You have to build either of them one brick at a time.

The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a youth who knelt daily beside...

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down...

You start to really lose perspective on the movie when the critical response is as weirdly, regressively unanimous as it is.

It’s a true dead-center perspective.

GON. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!ANT. The ground indeed is tawny.SEB. With an eye of green in ‘t.ANT. He misses not much.SEB. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.

Silverfish looked down.”Oh. Are you a dwarf?”Cuddy gave him a blank stare.”Are you a giant?” He said.”Me? Of course not!””Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.

Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem...

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

The man who’ll lay the last stone here isn’t even born yet.

It was frightening, this new clarity of vision: but I felt free at last to know darkness as the other side of light, and that both were needed for sight.And with that thought—it was almost...

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he’s devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits...

There are no facts, only interpretations.

As of this writing, I am twenty-five years old. I have been alive for 307 months. Nine of those months were pretty terrible. But 298 of those months have been very good. I have been...

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

When you’re here, an i in the Ocean, you’re no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you’re here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive,...

From a practical perspective, any telecom manufacturer has to have a big position in China.

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It’s all in how you think about it.

What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe – either because he has been lost or...

Tolstoy does not tell us how things look to the author; he tells us how they look to the characters. In short, he does not use simile and metaphor. (That astonishing assertion in Wood’s review...

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.

It’s amazing the life that Im living today, and I count my blessings every day for the giftsthat God has given me.

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...

While learning others, respect demands that one never takes issue with another’s freedom to choose their ‘get down’ – their way of living… and don’t be mad. But carefully listen, observe, and compare mental notes...

Yeah. She’d manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She’d talked rationally about putting people’s brains into computers. This was a normal day. No...

[O]ne person’s ‘barbarian’ is another person’s ‘just doing what everybody else is doing.

A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don’t hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn’t have traveled as far in your life to...

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What’s so wrong with that?

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, “My heart resumed its place.” Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been “as much afraid of me as...

…You don’t always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. … Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be...

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?

Isn’t it lucky?

Women should have nipples on their butts. From a design perspective, I think it would revolutionize the fashion industry.

…lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Reading is a sage way to bump up against life. Reading may be an escape, but it is not an escape from my own life and problems. It is an escape from the narrow boundaries...

I wish I could draw you how I see you. I’d draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I’d draw...

If you knew how the journey was going to end, you could afford to be patient along the path.

It’s individual, especially on the men’s side. I want to see how the freshmen compete. From the team perspective, it’s irrelevant on the women’s side. We won’t even have a team score.

When we see everyone the way God sees them, all their frailties and weaknesses as well as their strengths,we can learn to treat them tenderly. We must also view ourselves from God’s perspective: lovingly, tenderly,...

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths...