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The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

Since one never can absolutely know another, as this would mean knowledge of every particular thought and feeling; since we must rather form a conception of a personal unity out of the fragments of another person in which alone he is accessible to us, the unity so formed necessarily depends upon that portion of the Other which our standpoint toward him permits us to see.

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

The enchanted world arising out of the dim mists of the past, into which he just stepped, quivered-and disappeared.

The frame, the definition, is a type of context. And context, as we said before, determines the meaning of things. There is no such thing as the view from nowhere, or from everywhere for that matter. Our point of view biases our observation, consciously and unconsciously. You cannot understand the view without the point of view.

The opinions of others are important. They are the yardstick by which we measure our perspective on the world.

The report made them out to be monsters, although there was another untold side to the story, their side. It did not matter. Their side would probably never be told.

The sunlight could not quite dispel the difference in atmosphere now that she had seen the interior of the garden. It was as if a dark underside had been revealed that changed the cast of the whole property. But the whimsy of it, the way the eye was drawn down through every vista, the inventiveness, the fairy-tale quality, the melancholy of the lost gardens- it all excited her.

The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that. Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest.

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two completely different points of view on life.

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library.

Understanding is not absolutely final. What's now right could be wrong later.

The wise man is the one who can look at everything both with his own eyes and from the eyes of everything else!

Well, for instance, why does everything always have to be written from the point of view of a human being? Why not write from the point of view of a cat? Or a tree?

We begin to learn wisely when we're willing to see world from other people's perspective.

When we are ignorant, we see the world from our point of view and expect the world to behave according to our perception. When we are wise, we see ourselves as part of the world, and we try to fit into the world.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

You can't do clear observation if you ain't in the field. You can't be a pure observer if you're now in the field.

When it happens and it hits hard, we decide certain things, and realize there's truth in all those dark, lonely days" He had an instantaneous look about him, a glimmer and a glint over those eyes, he knew how the world worked, and took pleasure in its wickedness. He would give a dime or two to those sitting on the street, he would tell them things like: "It won't get any better," and "Might as well use this to buy your next fix," and finally "It's better to die high than to live sober," His suit was pressed nicely, with care and respect, like the kind a corpse wears, he'd say that was his way of honoring the dead, of always being ready for the oncoming train, I liked him, he never wore a fake smile and he was always ready to tell a story about how and when "We all wake up alone," he said once, "Oftentimes even when sleeping next to someone, we wake up before them and they are still asleep and suddenly we are awake, and alone." I didn't see him for a few days, a few days later it felt like it'd been weeks, those weeks drifted apart from one another, like leaves on a pond's surface, and became like months. And then I saw him and I asked him where he'd been, he said, "I woke up alone one day, just like any other, and I decided I didn't like it anymore.

When we are young we squander time as though it were unlimited; When we grow older, then like beggars we wish for crumbs of remembrance...

When you start thinking from other’s point of view, you will understand him more easily and more completely.

Whether your situation is dire or stable often depends on your point of view. Exploring different vantage points can give you valuable perspective.

Why are our people going out there,” said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves’ Guild. Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and … additional wealth I na new land,” said Lord Vetinari. “What’s in it for the Klatchians?” said Lord Downey. “Oh, they’ve gone out there because they are a bunch of unprincipled opportunists always ready to grab something for northern,” said Lord Vetinari. “A mastery summation, if I may say so, my lord,” said Mr. Burleigh. The Patrician looked down again at his notes. “Oh, I do beg your pardon, I seem to have read those last to sentences in the wrong order…

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

You might want to consider the whole thing from a man’s perspective. One’s own point of view, Rosemary, is inevitably limited.