Perspective Quotes

"It’s very easy to get caught up in your own world, but it’s so important to share a message." "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in Aim at earth and you get neither" "It is not everyone who has your passion for dead leaves" "Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken" "What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean." "It is important to draw wisdom from different places. If you take it from only one place it becomes rigid and stale" "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it" "Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time." "The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." "It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes." "I think I had a different childhood, but I wouldn't say it was bad. Even if things went on in my life that were rough, I know that I learned from things, so I'm grateful for those experiences." "When a person’s entire being is stretched in the effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile, it is impossible for the ordinary problems of life to seem important" "When you listen to a witness, you become a witness." "We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph."