#perspective

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

"Women should have nipples on their butts. From a design perspective, I think it would revolutionize the fashion industry."

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

"One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light."

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

"Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive."

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

"People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?"

"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?"

"The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits."

"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."

"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."

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

"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."