#perspective

"When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it."

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

"A truly good person will speak truth, act with truth, and stand for Truth. A truly good person is not afraid to think from their heart; therefore, allowing nonconformist decisions, viewpoints, and perspectives to lead their life. By following their heart, they stand with their conscience, and only with God."

"The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."

"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth."

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

"I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind."

"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."

"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)"

"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden."

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

"No two persons ever read the same book."

"The Mother Thing makes our world."

"Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there."

"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."

"There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that."

"He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes."

"Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective."

"What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them."

"The same view you look at every day, the same life, can become something brand new by focusing on its gifts rather than the negative aspects. Perspective is your own choice and the best way to shift that perspective is through gratitude, by acknowledging and appreciating the positives."