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Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it. ↗

— Morton Hunt

#any #break #break up #determination #failure

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#perspective

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#perspective #perspective

Distance lends enchantment to the view. ↗

— Mark Twain

#perspective

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#success #perspective

All stories are true. But some of them never happened. ↗

— James A. Owen

#perspective #stories #perspective

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. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#perspective

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#reality #perspective

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#reality #salman-rushdie #perspective

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#tragedy #perspective