Quotes About Perspective

People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.

Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn't mean it has to be bad. Even if it's something you are sure you would never have chosen in a hundred years. 'Better ten days of love than years of regretting,' " she quoted.

Once he had a grove of oaks chopped down because they were looking at him. And then insisted that they would be given decent funerals; he gave the orations. Do you have any idea how longs it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees?

how could you possibly look ten women in the face and ask why they had gotten you drunk and made a game of taking your clothes off and putting you to bed?

Min, you're a friend," he protested. "I don't think of you as a woman." It was the wrong thing to say; he knew it as soon as the words left his mouth.

Why was it women could go to pieces or fly into a rage at the smallest thing, yet never flicker an eyelash at what left you gaping?

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for what a man would shrug off.

I could wish somebody wanted to talk about something besides the weather. Everyone complains about it.

Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Perrin suspected Lini was one of those women who saw her "place" as being in charge. Come to think of it, most women did. That was the way of the world, it seemed, not just the Two Rivers.

Things are never as bad as they appear, Dai Shan.

Sometimes she thought the Creator had only made men to cause trouble for women.

Truth has more shadings than you might think, and distance often distorts truth into something very different from the facts.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways.

Mat, a very wise woman once told me that time would heal my wounds, that time smoothed everything over. I didn't believe her. Only

Who'd have thought an Aiel could bloody read?

Listening to tales of adventures, even dreaming about them, was one thing; having them take place around you would be something else again.

We must look and see Light, not Shadow, or we'll all be pulled under.

You can't hold a man to blame for what he does when he's crazy, can you?" "You were always crazy," Perrin said, and for a moment he, too, sounded as of old. "No," Nynaeve said. Tears made her eyes bright, but she was smiling. "None of us blames you.

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman

Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.

Always consider the possibility your assumptions are wrong

I am not so big a fool as that, boy. Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Small things were important. Seconds were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's