180 quotes found
“All a woman needs is a little pampering and a little perspective and she is ready to conquer the world.”
“While reading, we can leave our own consciousness, and pass over into the consciousness of another person, another age, another culture. "Passing over," a term used by the theologian John Dunne, de...”
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you ...”
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”
“For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.”
“The best things in life aren't things.”
“loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.”
“If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
“Distance lends enchantment to the view.”
“All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on ...”
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
“Were conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.”
“You can't see the world from somebody else's point of view and not be changed.”
“The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.”
“It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.”
“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Ear...”
