Quotes About Perspective

Why do you chop your life into bits and give the bits names? Hours, days. It is like a rabbit. If I kill a rabbit, I eat a rabbit. When you have a rabbit, you chop it up and call it bones and meat and fur and guts. And so you never have enough.

Oh, I think that children pray so, to find a lost doll or that Father will bring home a good haul of fish, or that no one will discover a forgotten chore. Children think they know what is best for themselves, and do not fear to ask the divine for it. But I have been a man for many years, and I should be shamed if I did not know better by now.

I do not disparage any man's life. Consider my own, and tell me what height I look down from.

It's a hard way to learn, but I think that's how most of us learn about jealousy. It seems like a stupid way for anyone to feel, until someone makes you feel it.

Live with it. Many folk have to live with worse. Most of the time you're fine. You're not blind. You're not paralyzed. You've your wits, still. Stop defining yourself by what you can't do. Why don't you consider what you didn't lose?

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

I felt suddenly old, and hastily entered Chade's chambers to remind myself that he was much older than I was.

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity." p. 293 Fitz to Bee

The past had broken free of my effort to define and understand it. History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

She taught me that being open was simply not being closed. And going into another's mind is mostly done by being willing to go outside of your own.

Many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

The price was my healthy young body, so long taken for granted.

For it is said, one may ask of the Elderlings, but what they answer may not be the question you ask, but the one you should have asked.

Be damned for a ram as deeply as a lamb.

Jonge mensen schijnen er altijd van overtuigd te zijn dat er later meer tijd zal komen,' merkte Burrich op.

no man can truly imagine being happy, and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.

We cannot put old heads on young shoulders.

When I was younger, it was like life was a beautiful gift, wrapped in exquisite paper and adorned with ribbons. And I loved it, even though all I knew of it was the outside of the package. But in the last year or so, I've finally started to see there is something even better inside the package. I'm learning to see past the fancy wrappings, to the heart of things.

Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.

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

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 I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.

If you feel far from God, guess who moved?

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.