Quotes About Perspective

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

I learnt that if you change the way you perceive a situation, you can change the way you feel about it, and changing the way you think in general, changes your experience of life.

We have to meet the world as if our ideas about it are real, but holding the knowledge that they are only ideas; to act as if we know, but tolerate the truth of not knowing.

When you look at things the same way you've always done, nothing changes. When you change perspective, everything changes.

Reading is being in stuff." Ben squinted. "Like actually being there?" "Like actually being there. You plug straight into the writer's brain. It's just you and them. You experience what they experience.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. It would be lovely, wouldn't it, whenever you're going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, "Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end," and you could say, "Thank you, Fairy Godmother.

When you look at things the same way you've always done, nothing changes. When you change perspective, everything changes.

When you change perspective, everything changes.

And Polly nodded, and thought about the odd counterbalance of weights in the universe—how bad things could happen, and sometimes wonderful, wonderful things could happen, but you weren't always fated to be in the heart of the story; sometimes it simply wasn't about you; you didn't always get all the answers.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things. It would be lovely, wouldn't it, whenever you're going through something difficult, if someone could just tap you on the shoulder and say, "Don't worry, it's completely worth it. It seems like absolutely horrible crap now, but I promise it will all come good in the end

The older I get,' said Lilian crisply, 'the more surprising life becomes.

I know," he said in a bewildered tone. "I know youse all think I'm an ancient fuddy-duddy from the dawn of time." "Why would we think that, Dad?" said Innes. "Just because you are an ancient fuddy-duddy from the dawn of time.

Comment aurais-tu pu apprécier à quel point la vie peut être belle, si elle n'avait jamais été pourrie?

Al die jaren hebben je gebracht waar je nu bent, hield ze zichzelf voor. Die jaren waren onontbeerlijk geweest. Als je gelukkig was geboren, hoe wist je dan wat het betekende om gelukkig te zijn? Hoe kon je je fijne leventje waarderen als je nooit in de shit had gezeten?

No!" said Sofia. "I read! Self-help can be very useful." She gave her sister a meaningful look. "Really?" said Carmen. "As useful as Rainbow Rowell? Or Douglas Adams? I doubt it.

Everywhere in Edinburgh is uphill. This doesn't seem like it can possibly be true, but it is.

The view from up here is different,' said Robert Carrier, extending his wing. 'When you look at things the same way you've always done, nothing changes.

But all those years . . . all those years, she told herself, got you where you are now. All those years were necessary. If you were just happy from the day you were born, how would you ever know? How would you appreciate how good life could be if it had never been crap?

Up on the Rooftops

It had never occurred to her that other mothers, whatever their situations, might be feeling exactly the same way.

The problem with good things that happen is that very often they disguise themselves as awful things.

I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go to the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about.

To understand what a person means or says, it's basically necessary to already know what that person means or is saying.