Quotes About Perspective

It's better if the guy loves the girl more, because if she loves him more, it never works out good for her.

Because just like you need to be where I am, I need to be where you are.

Love is not overrated. Or a waste of time. I think everyone says that when they're not in love, never been in love, or they were in love and it didn't go their way. Why? Because a life with no love is no life at all. (Anna K)

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

Also because I'm always saying he could quit his job if he wanted and we'll go somewhere cheap and live on rice and beans with our kid. My husband doesn't believe me about that last bit. And why should he? Once I spent $13 on a piece of cheese.

If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

Sometimes she just stands and looks out the window where the people whose lives are intact enough not to have to take yoga live.

My friend met me at the diner for coffee. His family fled Iran one week before the Shah fell. He didn't want to talk about the hum. I pressed him though. Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here. …

Studies show that 110% of men who leave their wives for other women report that their wives are crazy.

Is she a good baby? People would ask me. Well, no, I'd say. That swirl of hair on the back of her head. We must have taken a thousand pictures of it.

I offer her some birthday cake. She goes into the usual bit about temptation and sinfulness and maybe this and maybe that, and we have to go through every station of the fucking cross before she takes a bite of it.

The best thing with crazy people, Grandma Win used to say – the only thing, really – is to be somewhere else.

I tell Eli I will take him out to eat at the diner. NO ANIMALS ALLOWED, the sign outside the restaurant reads. "But we are animals, right?" "Don't be a stickler," I tell him.

If one day equaled the age of the universe, all of recorded history would be no more than ten seconds.

Once my mother had asked me, "Is it better to burn to death or freeze to death?" and the right answer was freeze because at the very end there was a trick that made you think you were warm.

How has she become one of those people who wears yoga pants all day? She used to make fun of those people. With their happiness maps and their gratitude journals and their bags made out of recycled tire treads. But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

If only they were French, the wife thinks. This would all feel different

The core delusion is that I am here and you are there.

dukkha, which is usually translated as "suffering," can have other meanings. In Tibetan Buddhism, the word is sometimes slanted differently, she says. Instead of saying that life is suffering, they might say that life is tolerable. As in just barely.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

How had she become one of those people who wears yoga pants all day? She used to make fun of those people. With their happiness maps and their gratitude journals and their bags made out of recycled tire treads. But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

Everything is going to be fine." I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what's coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking.

I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.