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Letter "P" » Perspective
«the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective»
«You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Perspective,
Relativity,
Tolerance
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«Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.»
Author: Julian Green
| About:
Perspective
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
Author: Richard Dawkins
| About:
Compassion,
Conscience,
Creativity,
Discovery,
Evolution,
Existence,
Experience,
Exploration,
Goodness,
Gratitude,
Happiness,
Knowledge,
Learning,
Life,
Mankind,
Meditation,
Mortality,
Nature,
Opportunity,
Perception,
Perspective,
Philosophy,
Responsibility,
Truth,
Wisdom
«Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
Humor,
Perspective,
Senses
| Keywords:
affairs, awareness, everyday, humor, intellectual, jumble, jumbled, jumbles, jumbling, kinds, oddly, perspective, perspectives
«The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite»
«The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Energy,
Humility,
Perspective
| Keywords:
bigger, energy, Something Big
«It's amazing the life that I?m living today, and I count my blessings every day for the giftsthat God has given me.»
«What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Perspective,
Priorities
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