Quotes About Perspective

I just think that where that kiss was heading is someplace that's a lot easier for you than it is for me. My life is very structured. Very simple. Very sane.

Funny how a person hung on to things that weren't of no use at all but then those were the things that pierced the soul when a body lost them.

You don't get it, god-bothered dude!

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not.

The idea of the book that matters most," Kiki said. "Because i think it's like impossible to pick such a book. When you read a book, and who you are when you read it, makes it matter or not. Like if you're unhappy and you read, I don't know, On the Road or The Three Musketeers, and that book changes how you fell or how you think, then it matters the most. At that time.

All over the world, people are looking at the same stars, the same moon, the same sun, every day. Somehow, I didn't feel so isolated when I thought of it that way.

She also knew that the story you made up in your mind was rarely the real story.

A classroom of students may read the same piece of poetry or the same passage in a novel, and each person may interpret it differently.

No hocus-pocus here. Just lots of living; it lends you some wisdom. Which I'm guessing is a trade-off for lost youth.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

at every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. the trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals because nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

The boys had grown since I'd last seen them. I wouldn't have recognized them in a group, but I find that the older I get, the more kids just look like kids. I don't really notice them as much as I used to. On the other hand, I could have instantly picked Harry out of a lineup of similarly marked German shepherds, were there ever a need to do so. Harry was a wonderful character. The boys were just boys.

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

Remember, you can't change anybody else. But you can write your own story differently.

Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.