Raymond E. Feist Quotes

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

Growing up is mostly the process of having to acknowledge the differences between your world and the whole world.

Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.