Quotes About Perspective

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

There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Don't let a suitcase filled with cheese be your big fork and spoon.

They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.

Did my daughter, my only child, think she was going to take control of her wedding, without me?

rearranges the truth so that people will like

Wasn't it just like good old mom to remind me my efforts were ill conceived and unnecessary?

Maybe as you aged, what you wanted from a relationship changed too.

because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always, a far richer experience than a book turned into a movie.

If you are unwilling to write from the honest, though perhaps far from the final, point of view that represents your present state, you may come to your deathbed with your contribution to the world still unmade, and just as far from final conviction about the universe as you were at the age of twenty.

It is well to understand as early as possible in one's writing life that there is just one contribution which every one of us can make: we can give into the common pool of experience some comprehension of the world as it looks to each of us

there is just one contribution which every one of us can make: we can give into the common pool of experience some comprehension of the world as it looks to each of us.

DON'T gang up on the other person and enlist others to your side just to prove that you're right. DON'T raise your voice. DON'T respond sarcastically. DON'T take a difference of opinion personally.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you made.

At the top of the Incline he looked back down at the houses and the sand and the sea. But they were all helpless now, lost in the fog.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two week's vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

Today,' said Lymond, 'if you must know, I don't like living at all. But that's just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I'll be bright as a bedbug again.

Mrs. Pollifax wondered why, when she was being her most serious, people found her so amusing.

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry. But I value things unpossessed. The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.