Quotes About Perspective

Ever notice folks can justify damned near anything, 'cause they're always the heroes n their own stories?

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

Leid kommt, wenn es eintrifft, in nichts dem gleich, was wir erwarten. (Joan Didion)

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

We are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us.

I never confuse the cost of something with its value

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.

Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.

My perception of my life crashed from high tragedy to juvenile self-pity in a matter of moments.

Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.

A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

As long as you believe it is impossible, you close your mind to understanding it.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

finally realizing that life was to be lived, rather than hoarded against an unseen tomorrow.

Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know.

there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have.

Little Brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me.

You won't even see what is put right on the table before you. Men. If it was raining soup you'd be out there with a fork.

There can be no misunderstandings if there are no understandings at all.

you imagine the worst, and when you do, your mind stops at the problem and does not consider the solution.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you.