"Every one of us lives in a..." - Quote by Guy Finley
Every one of us lives in a world that is no larger and no smaller than our understanding.
More by Guy Finley
“Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"”
“Life can only be as new as you Choose to be.”
“Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today”
More on Understanding
“We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.”
“But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.”
“Enter others' minds and let them enter yours.”
More on Perception
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.”
“Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.”
“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside".”