Perspective Quotes

"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past" "The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible." "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return" "Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem." "One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things" "Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts" "It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view" "It is better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion however satisfying and reassuring" "The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, trying to be a better player than before" "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist" "Some people see things that are and ask, why. Some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not. Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that" "Life is an endless series of trainwrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness" "Two people who see things differently can learn a lot from each other" "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written" "Things are always better in the morning"