#perspective

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestral-memory #bloodlines #dna #familial-perspectives #family

...you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!... ↗

— John Geddes

#devotion #perspective #change

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world. Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you. ↗

— Toba Beta

#ego #humor #life #perspective #point-of-view

He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him. ↗

— George Eliot

#history #myopia #perspective #reading #life

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it ↗

— Henry James

#perspective #reality #change

I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#god #gratitude #inspirational #life #motivational

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#frustration #perspective #wisdom #men

This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who knows not. And his footsteps on the road click tic-tac, tic-tac ↗

— Cristiane Serruya

#lack-of-morals #lack-of-perspective #modern-life #modernity-is-a-sickness #philosophy-of-people

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#perspective #proportion #inspirational

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#different-perspective #inspiration #inspirational