#perspective

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."

"Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you."

"I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in their vision of things, so that I was always transposing reality for them into something they could understand."

"Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels."

"I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past."

"Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency."

"Stairs, are they going up or are they going down? They’re so confusing! If love were a physical thing, it would be stairs."

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

"The story of my family. . .changes with the teller."

"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."

"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it."

"The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."

"If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)"

"Based on the questions we both answered, we’re a 0% love match. That means we’re 100% compatible, once I enlighten her to the correct perspective on life."

"I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck."

"One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed."

"College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination."