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Quotes about Perspective

If you understand life you need a reality check.
— Paulo Coelho
Before you say again that you're going to die, I want to tell you something. There are people who spend their entire lives searching for a moment like the one you had last night, but they never achieve it. That's why, if you were to die now, you would die with your heart full of love.
— Paulo Coelho
You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.
— Paulo Coelho
It's just a storm in a tea cup,' someone says The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.
— Paulo Coelho
We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.
— Paulo Coelho
Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality
— Paulo Coelho
It was so good that I can see love in everything, even in the eyes of a schizophrenic.
— Paulo Coelho
I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.
— Paulo Coelho
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.
— Winston Churchill
The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
— Karl Barth