So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?
David MitchellMots clés wisdom perspective learning-from-mistakes postmodern postmodernism loser improvement cloud-atlas winner
And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe.
Danny WallaceMots clés perspective people stars space humans scale astrophysics transient
As small as a world as large as alone.
E.E. CummingsMots clés perspective
After five seconds there was a click, and the entire Universe was there in the box with him.
Douglas AdamsMots clés humor perspective universe
Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.
Tan Twan EngMots clés life perception perspective time loneliness memory
You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.
Bryant McGillMots clés beauty perspective judgement attitude beautiful projection
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
Criss JamiMots clés imagination life art writing originality social perspective humanity solitude authenticity purity isolation brain artist alienation craft compromise creative introversion advantage loner genuine awkward fierce alienation-versus-humanity humanity-versus-alienation socially-awkward
If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.
Randy AlcornMots clés insanity wealth perspective christianity sanity horror stewardship materialism clarity possessions hoarding pity display accumulating
He had no ideal world of dead heroes; he knew little of the life of men in the past; he must find the beings to whom he could cling with loving admiration among those who came within speech of him.
George EliotMots clés reading perspective history emotion myopia
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?
George EliotMots clés perspective balance
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