2,376 Quotes About Perspective

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Historians are not scientists. They cannot (and should not even trying to) establish universal laws of social or political "physics" with reliable predictive powers. Why? Because there is no possibility of repeating the single, multi-millennium experiment that constant to the past. The sample size of human history is one.

We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life.

I had a dream about you last night... and in it you said "Chin up; it only gets harder.

Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate.

Your perspectives change your realities.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.