Perspective For Beginners Quotes & Sayings

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart. — Maajid Nawaz

with rare exceptions (chiefly the social insects), mammals and birds are the only organisms to devote substantial attention to the care of their young; an evolutionary development that, through the long period of plasticity which it permits, takes advantage of the large information-processing capability of the mammalian and primate brains. Love seems to be an invention of the mammals. — Carl Sagan

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must. — Fred Thompson

Because I'm small, I've been called things from 'Happy Feet' to 'Little Face.' — Kevin Hart

At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause to watch the splendid disc set the brine aflame and then douse itself in it's own fiery broth. — Geraldine Brooks

So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.
We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kind of powers in this world. One child is given a light saber, another a wizard's education. — Susan Cain

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. — Veronica Roth

I forgot to mention that sometimes this typist is nauseated by the thought of food. This dates from her childhood when she discovered that she had eaten a fried cat. The thought revolted her for ever more. She lost her appetite and felt the great hunger thereafter. She was convinced that she had committed a crime; that she had eaten a fried angel, its wings snapping between her teeth. She believed in angels, and because she believed in them, they existed. — Clarice Lispector

Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do! — Dolores Cannon

It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. — Harry Hill

Its hard to say what's wrong when nothing is going right! — Sherif A. El-Mawardy

The beginning, the laying down of the fundamentals, was always the worst part, which he supposed was why so few people did it. — Lev Grossman

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture. — John Locke

A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things. — William Carlos Williams