Perspective Quotes

"The paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions" "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" "It is foolish to wish for beauty Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others" "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional" "There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." "Our lives are not as firmly shaped by the practicalities of our income as by the attitudes we maintain towards our position." "You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." "Being happy is not the only happiness." "I am an optimist, even though I am not daunted by the contradictions and the nightmare future that is emerging." "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks." "We tend to live up to our expectations" "There are neither good nor bad subjects From the point of view of pure Art you could almost establish it as an axiom that there is no such thing as a subject inferior in itself or without possibilities" "There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view " "The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes " "The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop" "There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home" "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs" "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong"