Quotes About Perspective

I have a life that I enjoy I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box.

Something my life has taught me is not to see things in black and white. People are neither all good nor all bad.

Happiness does not rely on what you have or who you are. It relies on what you think.

She looked u at me through tear-stained cheeks and stammered, "My dad won't give me a Porsche when I come home if I don;t get all A's." I was a bit stunned. IT was my first encounter with real wealth. I remember looking at her and thinking, Holy shit. Being spoiled is worse abuse that being hit. At least I knew that being hit is wrong, But being spoiled ruins you.

Its just an inch from me to you, depending on what map you use.

When asked a question, class, it's important to consider how it's framed. Sometimes a question is a door to another question, another way of seeing. Understanding.

I feel sorry for all those people in the planes and towers who were expecting an ordinary day.

I hoped that reading the novel would give my mother a sense that my life as a queer black feminist is about something more than my choice of partners. It is also about a relationship to time and people and shared space.

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

A boil is no big deal. On someone else's neck.

I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

If I can help Americans to understand China, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I will feel very rewarded. I

I may not be in total control of what happens in my life, but I certainly am in charge of how I choose to perceive my experience.

For many of us, once we have made a decision, then we are attached to that decision forever. I have found that often the last thing a really dominating left hemisphere wants is to share its limited cranial space with an open-minded right counterpart!

There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

If there exists in this universe anything more infuriating and crazy-making than a man, I don't know what it is, thank you, and I don't want to know.

What if, when you woke up in the morning, ALL you had LEFT was what you had thanked God for the night before?

The lesson of the Funk Dog: "You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life; feeling rotten—or just a low-grad funk—seems normal and therefore acceptable. I just don't believe that God intended for any of his creatures to be petted with sticks.

That's a rare thing: to love someone, not for how you think of them, but for how they think of themselves.

It needs time, perspective, to show you that someone might be original.