More quotations tagged with “perspective”
This increasingly intelligent, fast-moving civilization needs to be applying some of its intelligence to things that change slowly.… If we are constantly tending to the immediate, day-to-day problems, we'll lose that sense of the long term, and then we could be really sorry.
—Stewart Brand
Marriage is a perilous and fearful effort, it seems to me.… It creates pain that it is the only cure for. It is the only comfort for its hardships.… Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective. The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly empty, and mostly dark. We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart.
—Wendell Berry
Our parents got divorced when we were kids, and it was kind of cool. We got to go to divorce court with them. It was like a game show. My mom won the house and car. We were all excited. My dad got some luggage.
—Tom Arnold
Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.
—James Patterson in Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
—Marilyn French