Quotes About Perspective

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child, car brakes that need fixing, a sale on pot roast, a cloudless sky, a trip to the woods to cut down a Christmas tree, a school teacher, a Dunhill Billiard pipe...or even a pair of shoes. Some people will never believe. They may feel that such things are too trivial, too simple, or too insignificant to forever change a life. But I believe. And I always will.

The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

So much of life is made up of questions that we think matter today but are forgotten tomorrow.

As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

She would not trade one set of walls for another.

Lefty A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right.

Whatever you speak about is what you create more of. So choose to talk about the best possible scenarios, the easiest way to do something, or how you've grown and learned from an experience. When

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." — HELEN KELLER (1880–1968)

For sure we'll make a ton of money," Claire said. "Money? What's that?" Kaz asked. "You don't know what money is?" Claire gaped at him. "No." Claire laughed.

You got to be in mighty bad shape in the head to eat greens and Jell-o.

Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It's not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.

I've arrived at a time in my life when I could believe almost anything.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"—Dalai Lama.)

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

When there's a war, people get married.

As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.