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Perspective (59)
Aphorisms 58
Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of…
— John Updike
Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.
— Elizabeth Alexander
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
It's not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life, that counts.
— J.M. Laurence
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
— Witold Gombrowicz
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
— Parker Palmer
No worthy problem is ever solved on the plane of its original conception.
— Albert Einstein
The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
— Rohinton Mistry
Life is an action, it isn't an existence.
— Anonymous
We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.
— Douglas Preston
The closest thing to being magnificent is feeling and acting as if you are.
— Anonymous
Those who can't do, teach.
— George Bernard Shaw
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
— Robert Schuller
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
— Gabriel García Márquez
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
— Oscar Wilde
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
— Mark Twain
Wealth requires those four: access to have good things around, enough time, enough energy, and a mindset to enjoy them.
— Cumhur Kılınçer
Normality is what the weak call living. I call it death.
— Anonymous
Easy to make things look hard; but it's hard to make things look easy!
— Anonymous
All bleeding stops... eventually.
— Anonymous
I am responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.
— Anonymous
The way in which we handle the fear is the main difference between successful and unsuccessful people.
— Anonymous
We don't need to be the best. What life expects from us is to strive to be the best we can be.
— Anonymous
Some people are like pictures, if you scale them up too much, they will lose their quality.
— Anonymous
One person's craziness is another person's reality.
— Tim Burton
There are no facts, only interpretations.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich…
— Stephen Covey
The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult.
— Mme. du Deffand
To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.
— Peter F. Drucker
All sorts of things can be done in the long run, but you have to live through the short run to get there.
— Thomas Sowell
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David Thoreau
If small men cast large shadows somewhere, the sun is setting there!
— Confucius
What matters is not what is said, but what is understood from it.
— Anonymous
Yesterday is just a memory, tomorrow we may never see.
— Hemendra
There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
— Swedish Proverb
You are what what you eat eats.
— Michael Pollan
The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.
— Frank Miller
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
— Manuel Puig
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width…
— Diane Ackerman
A wise man gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out of his friends.
— Baltasar Gracián
There's no inherent meaning in information — it's what we do with that information that matters.
— Beau Lotto
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.
— John A. Morrison
Stories only happen to people who can tell them.
— Allan Gurganus
I will see it, when I believe it.
— Anonymous
Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage…
— Ward Moore
While you're worrying about small things, someone your age is wishing for one more sunrise. Make your day count.
— Patrick Bet-David
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
— Harry Truman
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories. And those that carry us forward are…
— H.G. Wells
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle. And a very happy start.
— Shel Silverstein
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
— Nora Roberts
What is the ultimate quantification of success? For me, it's not how much time you spend doing what you love. It's how…
— Casey Neistat
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
— Evelyn Waugh
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are some things that are so serious you have to laugh at them.
— Niels Bohr
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
— Albert Szent-Györgyi
It’s impossible to be a life-changing presence to some without also being a complete joke to others.
— Mark Manson
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning…
— Albert Einstein
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
— Friedrich Nietzche