Perspective Quotes - Page 2

Incidentally, the world is magical.
Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Electricity is really just organized lightning

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid.

The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

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

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I’m going to change the whole world.
Master of Stupidity: It changes within you. It changes without you.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.