Quotes On Perspective

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person; they've got nothing to lose.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

The environment is everything that isn't me.