Quotes About Perspective

It is merely that there is only so much people can do to be happy, no matter what they think they should do.

What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.

Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?

And I belive I am too, and if you think that is awful, then you dont understand a thing.

Science is not about what's true. It's about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by way of public evidence.

As C. S. Lewis famously said, 'God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: [evil] is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

How we face death tells us a lot about how we'll face life.

The evidence of my life lay before me, and I was unconvinced.

But the ruinous thing about growing up is that we stop creating mysteries where none exist, and worse, we usually try to deconstruct and deny the genuine mysteries that remain. We argue against God, against true romance, against loyalty and self-sacrifice.

It's peculiar, to reach your destination," he told me. "You think you'll arrive and perform the thing you came for and depart in contentment. Instead you get there and find distance still to go.

You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.

He stood and nodded at the great whitening sky. "We're sure small, wouldn't you say? Takes the onus off, somehow.

You know how it is—you grow up with a story all your life, it can transmute into something you neither question nor particularly value. It's why we have such bad luck learning from mistakes.

A veteran bystander to hard moments, I knew they went by quicker when you were unconscious.

telegram saying, "Existence is great but don't read so much into it.

Why am I still surprised when it turns out there is more to the story?

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

Make of that what you will.

one of her recent letters asks, Is it hubris to believe we all live epics? (Perhaps it is, but I suspect she's not actually counting on me for an answer.)

Existence is great but don't read so much into it.

Could a person believe so strongly one way, yet take the opposite route?

Is there a single person on whom I can press belief? No sir. All I can do is say, Here's how it went. Here's what I saw. I've been there and am going back. Make of it what you will.

I just liked it better when Mr. Andreeson was the enemy, I complained finally.

I always try to turn the spotlight on the other person. Truly confident people often do this. They know they grow more by listening than talking.