Quotes about Perspective

Agonies are one of my changes of garments; I do not ask the wounded person how he feels . . . . I myself become the wounded person, My hurt turns livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.

All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own, Else it were time lost listening to me.

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.

All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not add up to a visible place. They add up to words and numbers.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

It's so dry the trees are bribing the dogs.

Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.

I stood and pulled her up on two feet. "That depends." "On what?" "Whether you're looking at this through my eyes or yours.

See it?" ... "Yeah." ... "How in the world did you see that in the first place?" "Don't know." "It's hard to make out." "Give it about ten minutes..." So we waited. Trying not to look at it so much that it lost all meaning. Like a word you say over and over until you're only hearing what it sounds like and you've forgotten what it means.

My life has been real different than I thought. Ain't turned out how I hoped . . . nor dreamt. But I'm not the only man in the world to get screwed by life. Lots are worse off than me. That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.

The truth is a giant hand. It both cuts us free and holds us tight.