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"The next-most difficult thing in the world in the world is to get perspective. The most difficult is to keep it."
- Cassius Keyser
Sometimes it's difficult for us to comprehend and appreciate the fact that things haven't always been as we find them today. We take many things for granted as status quo, finding no mystery in what we perceive as 'normal' and 'obvious.'
By the same token, we often overlook the fact that we are not the same people we were - as individuals, as societies, as a species - years ago.
The sixteen quotes and excerpts included here as "Reflective Perspectives" serve to remind us that just as 'today' reflects unforeseen and unexpected changes from the past, 'tomorrow' will inevitably surprise us in even more unanticipated ways.
Are we prepared for a 'tomorrow' different from 'today'?
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REFLECTIVE PERSPECTIVES
from David Fairchild's The World Was My Garden from Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance from Henry David Thoreau's Walden 
The self explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes an explorer of everything else.
Elias Canetti
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