Quotes About Perspective

Thats why I pick and choose. I dont get shit confused. I got a small circle. Im not with different crews. We walk the same path, but got on different shoes. Live in the same building, but we got different views.

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

Other niggas situations, they are all depressing.

Dont leave something good to find something better. Once you realize you had the best, the best has found better.

I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.

When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world, its just the end of the world that you had with one girl.

Shes the reason it happened, but shes overreacting, and its all because she dont want things to change.

No Im not saying Im the nicest I just life like it.

If you don't want to laugh or touch things that are farther away, then I don't want your advice anyway.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

Dolphin-safe tuna, that's great if you're a dolphin. What if you're a tuna? Somewhere there's a tuna flopping around a ship going, "What about me? I'm not cute enough for you?"

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.

Happiness is a temporary chemical imbalance of the true state of mind.

Just try to understand that sometimes it is better to see a thing destroyed, rather than ruined.

You think God created the world?" he asks me. "Bullshit. Any kind of benevolent and righteous being would never create a fucking world like this. It's impossible. God didn't fucking create the world." Before he walks away completely, he turns back to me one final time, pointing his finger at me. Some people on the beach look over. "Henry," he says, "the Devil created the world when God wasn't looking" He kicks down the little kids' sand castle and goes somewhere with the girls.

We're all martyrs and we're all villains. That's the truth for everything, because it's all subjective. It's all relative.

Books come in all shapes and sizes – as do writers – and sometimes those books you think you are going to love, you don't, while sometimes books you think are not worth picking up turn out to be some of the best you have ever read.

It's as if, from the vantage point of a verandah bed, that great expanse of sky rolls in over us from the very edge of existence.

Any married man should forget his mistakes — no use two people remembering the same thing.

Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

Humility before God generates humility toward others. If humility toward others is not evident, it's unlikely we see ourselves correctly before God.

A truly effective leader, however, must be able to see the shades of gray inherent in a situation in order to make wise decisions as to how to proceed. The essence of thinking gray is this: don't form an opinion about an important matter until you've heard all the relevant facts.

Eventually all things become cliché.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.