#perspective

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

#beauty

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#mountains #perspective #change

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. ↗

— Henry Miller

#eternity

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#darkness #fiction #human #humanity #mankind

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#perspective #fairies

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success ↗

— Ian Fleming

#genius

One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense. ↗

— Peter Cameron

#perspective #sense #nonsense

We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective. ↗

— Toba Beta

#others #perspective #point-of-view #willing-to-see #wisely

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