Perspectives Quotes

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.”
― Nikita Gill

“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We cannot train ourselves to be perfect, but we can ensure we have better intuition when it comes to human behavior.”
― Milan Kordestani, I'm Just Saying: A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World

“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
― Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice

“If we put the sterile mechanism of our brain on hold, we can view an ocean of enticing eye-opening perspectives. Life offers us an array of choices allowing us to discover a spray of overpowering colors, and hear overwhelming new sounds, and smell the intense fragrances of nature. ("The final decision" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“After the front legs emerged, what looked like a quartered and bloodied cut of steak followed.  This piece of steak had rich and dark fur, wet with the mare’s internal membranes that covered the whole body, but it did not have the look of a horse at all.  And yet from the steak’s center came this pulsating heartbeat, as though its pace-setting qualities tried in vain to pull away or escape from its thoroughbred side.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.”
― Germany Kent

“He wasn’t sure if his parents would be proud that their child had served his country or not.  There had always been something unnatural about parents burying their children.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“Robinson had thoroughly enjoyed her evening at the opera. Her only previous experience had been a performance of Wagner, to which the Assistant Commissioner, an avid Wagnerian, had taken her a year before. It was a strange but admirable British characteristic, she had thought at the time, how little antagonism was directed against the great artistic creations of the enemy, even of Richard Wagner, the great idol of Hitler.”
― Mark Ellis, The French Spy

“She put all of her weight against the sill of the balcony, her lovesick heart ready and willing to join the man she loved.  She closed her eyes and pushed herself forward.  From three stories high, she plummeted to the earth.  Before hitting the ground, she swore she saw him, racing down from the heavens and lifting her up towards God’s domain where lovers never ceased to rule.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and The Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“Oh, sweet little boy, beloved little girl, you are so overwhelmed by life sometimes, I know, by the enormity of it all, by the vastness of the possibilities, by the myriad of perspectives available to you. You feel so pressed down sometimes, by all the unresolved questions, by all the information you are supposed to process and hold, by the urgency of things. You are overcome by powerful emotions, trying to make it all "work out" somehow, trying to get everything done "on time," trying to resolve things so fast, even trying not to try at all.
You are exhausted, sweet one, exhausted from all the trying and the not trying, and you are struggling to trust life again. It's all too much for the poor organism, isn't it? You are exhausted; you long to rest. And that is not a failing of yours, not a horrible mistake, but something wonderful to embrace!”
― Jeff Foster, The Way of Rest: Finding The Courage to Hold Everything in Love

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The fatal misconception behind brainstorming is that there is a particular script we should all follow in group interactions.... [W]hen the composition of the group is right—enough people with different perspectives running into one another in unpredictable ways—the group dynamic will take care of itself. All these errant discussions add up. In fact, they may even be the most essential part of the creative process. Although such conversations will occasionally be unpleasant—not everyone is always in the mood for small talk or criticism—that doesn’t mean that they can be avoided. The most creative spaces are those which hurl us together. It is the human friction that makes the sparks.”
― Jonah Lehrer

“Do not come into agreement with fear. Activate your faith, live in victory, speak over your life and expect great things to come your way.”
― Germany Kent

“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular damned Tower of Babel. Snap out of it! The people in those books never lived. Come on now!”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.”
― Simon Cheshire, Plastic Fantastic

“பாறையின் மேலேறிய உதிரனுக்கு கபிலர் ஏன் ஏறாமல் நிற்கிறார் என்ற காரணம் புரியவில்லை.

"நான் எங்கே நிற்கிறேன்?" என்று கேட்டார் கபிலர்.

"கீழே நிற்கிறீர்கள்" என்றான் உதிரன்.

"காரமலையின் உச்சியில் நின்றாலும் நான் கீழே நிற்பதாகத்தானே உனக்குத் தோன்றுகிறது" என்றார். கபிலர் சொல்லவருவது உதிரனுக்குப் புரியவில்லை.

கபிலர் விளக்கினார். "உண்மை என்பது இருக்குமிடம் சார்ந்தது. அதனால்தான் நான் கீழே இருப்பதாகக் கண நேரத்தில் நீ முடிவு செய்துவிட்டாய். நீ சொல்வது உன்னளவில் மட்டுமே உண்மை. அதுவே முழு உண்மையாகிவிடாது. எல்லோரும் ஓரிடத்தில் நிற்கப்போவதில்லை. எனவே, எல்லோருக்குமான பொது உண்மை இருக்கப்போவதில்லை.”
― Su. Venkatesan, வீரயுக நாயகன் வேள்பாரி, முதல் தொகுதி

“When we focus so hard on the tiny details, we leave ourselves open to miss the bigger picture. Details matter and so does an eagles point of view.”
― Rosangel Perez

“In these days [1908], when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters and needs of the immediate present, those paths of knowledge that lead into regions seemingly remote from such needs are somewhat discredited; and the aims of those that follow them whither they lead are regarded as quite out of touch with the real interests of life. Very greatly is this so with archaeology, and the study of ancient and curious tongues, and searchings into old thoughts on high and ever-insistent questions; a public which has hardly time to read more than its daily newspaper and its weekly novel has denounced - almost dismissed - them, with many other noble and wonderful things, as 'unpractical,' whatever that vague and hollow word may mean.”
― Battiscombe G. Gunn

“Some people are like egg. The more you apply heat to them, the harder they become. To hatch them, just use a gentle heat, and to keep them alive, just keep them cool.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“There’s nothing wrong with seeking input and fresh perspectives from others. But when you have a habit of making decisions and looking for answers outside of yourself, you risk cutting yourself off from your innate truth, which undermines your own intuition. No matter how well-intentioned the advice offered may be.”
― Dana Arcuri, Intuitive Guide: How to Trust Your Gut, Embrace Divine Signs, & Connect with Heavenly Messengers

“Embracing pain strengthens the will; embracing crying heals the soul; embracing melancholy deepens insight and perception; embracing boredom fosters creativity and imagination; embracing misery instills bravery; embracing ridiculousness preserves sanity; embracing chaos creates peace; embracing invisibility sets one free; embracing despair teaches acceptance of the inevitable; embracing pessimism prevents suicide by tempering hope; embracing meaninglessness cultivates patience and resilience; embracing purposelessness allows one to be out of the box; embracing rage generates an inexhaustible source of fuel; embracing loneliness unites with the self; embracing uncertainty gives a sense of excitement; embracing temporariness nurtures a great sense of humour; embracing lack of belonging liberates from illusions; embracing alienation unveils the very nature of things; embracing resignation soothes restlessness; embracing inability to embrace gives peace; embracing unhappiness brings true happiness...”
― Sov8840

“In my effort to fathom my mother, to see things from her per-spective, to accommodate her, to understand what hurt her, what made her do the things she did and to predict what she may or may not do next, I turned into a maze, a labyrinth of pathways that zigzag underground and surface in strange places, hoping to gain a vantage point for a perspective other than my own. Seeing her through lenses that were not entirely coloured by my own experience of her made me value her for the woman she was. It made me a writer. A novelist.  Because that ’s what novelists are  –  labyrinths. And now this labyrinth must make sense of its labyrinthine self without her.”
― Arundhati Roy, Mother Mary Comes to Me

“Innovation often arises from collaboration. Diverse perspectives, shared ideas, and constructive debate push boundaries. Working together allows creativity to reach heights unattainable alone.”
― Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“[Librarians] have the power to expand people's perspectives, and that's the number one thing we need to do right now.”
― W. Kamau Bell

“Ideas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right around the world, and they find new niches in which to flourish.”
― Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive?

“There is no way to make hard conversations un-hard. You can never fully understand a person whose life experience is very different from your own. I will never know what it is like to be Black, to be a woman, to be Gen Z, to be born with a disability, to be a working-class man, to be a new immigrant or a person from any of a myriad of other life experiences. There are mysterious depths to each person. There are vast differences between different cultures, before which we need to stand with respect and awe. Nevertheless, I have found that if you work on your skills—your capacity to see and hear others—you really can get a sense of another person’s perspective. And I have found that it is quite possible to turn distrust into trust, to build mutual respect.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen