On Gaining Perspective


Thoughts Provoking


One eye sees, the other feels.
- Paul Klee

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
- Robert Downey, Jr.

I paint objects as I think them; not as I see them.
- Pablo Picasso

We are a landscape of all we have seen.
- Isamu Noguchi

We do not err because truth is difficult to see.
It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
- Alexander Solzhenitzyn

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Thoreau

Vision: the art of seeing the invisible.
- Jonathan Swift

Good and evil are typified by light and darkness; therefore, if we bring light into a dark room, the darkness disappears, and inasmuch as a soul is filled with good, evil disappears.
- Aurelia Mace, Shaker eldress

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
- Carrie Fisher

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.
- Joesph Chilton Pearce

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Dalai Lama

The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates,

Your vision will become clear only when you look
into your heart. ... Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung

In a dark time the eye begins to see.
- Theodore Roethke

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
- Rodney Dangerfield

There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
- Johnny Depp

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
- Aristotle

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
- Winston Churchill


Love...is the essence of absolute exposure of one's self to another.
- Cynthia M. Sabotka












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