Quotes About Perspective

I suddenly wished to go back, to have again each separate day to spend. Time. I was trapped in it, fenced into a tiny piece of now that was the only time I could influence. All the soons and tomorrows I might plan were ghost things that might be snatched from me at any moment. Intentions were nothing. Now was all I had.

have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

I was thirty-five that year. When I was twenty, I would have considered a man of my current age to be teetering on the verge of dotage. These days, it seemed neither young nor old to me, but a suspension between the two.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider

Vim a saber mais tarde que muitos homens vêem sempre a boa fortuna dos outros como uma desfeita contra si próprios.

Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.

Take some advice, and you may survive this trip. When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities. Consider them all, boy.

But there was no point in sighing after what I could not have. It only distracted me from what I did have, and that was more than I'd ever had in my life.

Girls think strangely

Claro que não sabes (...) E nem sequer queres ver o que está posto na mesa à tua frente. Homens. Se estivesse a chover sopa, estarias lá fora com um garfo.

That isn't how I see it, Amber. That isn't how I see it at all. It's just my life, and now that I have finally discovered what I must have to be happy, I'm willing to lay down my life for it. That's all.' She smiled. 'That is all . You are right. And that is all that All ever is.

I don't understand," I said faintly. "You don't have to," he replied comfortingly. "Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are.

In the space of a handful of nights, her whole concept of what a ship was underwent a sea-change.

we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

It all seems pretty obvious now." "It usually is, after someone else thinks of it.

Is there anything more chilling than looking at a righteous fifteen-year-old and realizing he has the power to unravel your entire life?

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all." And

Tu recommences à confondre l'amour et tuyauterie

I don't think any two pains are ever exactly the same, Hap. But the part about being a fool, oh, yes.

I'm too old to do this sort of thing anymore. No. You only wish you were.

The sad thing about boredom is that one learns to value it only when it is exploded by a disaster, or the threat of one.