Quotes About Perspective

If you think your honor demands you kill every dog that barks at you...you will only find yourself spending all your time chasing dogs. There is no honor in that.

At the same time, he was aware that literature was more than sociological data: it changes, not just reflects, expectations and experiences.

Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke

Putting everything on hold to achieve the one thing you think will make you happy will actually mean that you're miserable along the way to getting there, and when you get there, you might find that the thing wanted doesn't make you as happy as you thought it would. Or worse, you've completely forgotten how to be happy.

É o que faz a mente humana, descobre provas para apoiar aquilo em que acreditamos.

things are very rarely better, just different.

To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

I think what love is changes over time, as you grow older, learn more, do more.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

If you ask a negative, unanswerable question, you will get a negative, impractical answer. The question you ask determines the focus of your thinking, your focus determines your attitude, and your attitude determines your ability to take action.

Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Money is only congealed snow.

There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

Why did some people have so much? And yet, compared with Lily, she herself must seem almost rich. Was it all like this? Did every one look with envy at the one above? Funny. And funny, too, that the thought of someone else being worse off than you were yourself should make you feel more cheerful.

Youth and enthusiasm can be fatiguing to those who have lost both.

No matter how you resent other people's company, when you have it, you can't concentrate so fiercely upon your misery as you would without it.

The young do not know what they do when they withdraw themselves from the old. Life, light and hope seemed to have gone with these three.

No matter what the other person is doing, what you feel in response is determined inside you. Even when somebody deliberately tries to hurt you, you make a choice about how you feel. You might feel angry or hurt or frightened or guilty. The choice, not usually conscious, happens inside you.

You get to have beliefs of your own. What matters is not that you agree with us but that you question the prevailing paradigm and decide for yourself what you believe.

Nurturing. Janet remembers some of her childhood fantasies in which she was doing really terrible things to very small people, so she could cradle them like dolls afterwards.