How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. —H. G. Wells More about this quote Tags: mistakes space perspective catastrophes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: wisdom intelligence perspective aging generations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that somehow pertains to our questions. This especially applies to what we used to call bad things. The challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative. —James Redfield in The Celestine Prophecy More about this quote Tags: life learning perspective silver lining Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be. —Marian Keyes in Anybody Out There? More about this quote Tags: perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. —Josh Billings More about this quote Tags: love perspective envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perspective adventure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: time perspective travel walking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In Rome you long for the country; there, you praise to the skies the city you’ve just left. —Horace More about this quote Tags: perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. —Carl Sagan in Cosmos More about this quote Tags: perspective preciousness universe disagreement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. —Robert Orben More about this quote Tags: humor perspective neutrality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'. —Henry Moore More about this quote Tags: accomplishment time perspective resolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often perfectly respectable in legitimate business. —Robert Rice More about this quote Tags: perspective respect crime business Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. —Shalom Aleichem More about this quote Tags: perception perspective enjoyment food parable Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us, and call that handful of sand the world. —Robert Pirsig More about this quote Tags: wonder awareness perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Tags: justice opinion prejudice perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email