Perspective Quotes

Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

The only way round is through.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you arethe one who gets burned.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happeningto them.

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.