#perspective

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#perspective #inspirational

Your life is a print-out of your thoughts. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#agreement-with-reality #inspirational #intent #life #perspective

If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way. ↗

— John Cusack

#perspective #life

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe. ↗

— Danny Wallace

#humans #people #perspective #scale #space

He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#youth #men

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" He said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#dwarf #perception #perspective #men

The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again. Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#perception #perspective #men

Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#bag #because #big #body #bones

I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#audience #character #closer #first #i

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#distance #even #fact #four #go