#perspective

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#happiness #love #perspective #self-awareness #love

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

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality. ↗

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

#perspective #reality #truth #respect

Remember, you see in any situation what you expect to see. ↗

— David J. Schwartz

#optimism #perspective #optimism

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#perspective #rain #silence #white-noise #dog

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot. ↗

— Simon Schama

#history #historical

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #compassion #compassionate #comprehend #comprehending

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#gratitude #perspective #positive-thinking #rose

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#perspective #terrorism #war #war-on-terror #wmd