Quotes About Perspective

celebrate my freedom rather than mourn my loss.

We are all products of our worldviews - even scientists who claim objectivity.

for we are storymakers, not just storytellers

Restoring a habitat, no matter how good intentioned, produces casualties. We set ourselves us as arborators of what is good, when often our standards of goodness are driven by narrow interests. By what we want.

Of course you should write about it. It's supposed to be shared, otherwise how can it work? We've been waiting five hundred years for people to listen. If they'd understood the Thanksgiving

When I stare too long at the world with science eyes, I see an afterimage of traditional knowledge. Might science and traditional knowledge be purple and yellow to one another, might they be goldenrod and asters? We see the world more fully when we use both.

I guess that's the secret. It would never have occurred to Lia to want to escape -- but then she gets kicked out. Best thing that ever happened to her? I'm not sure she would say yes, because obliviousness tends to be rather pleasant, but once you realized you've been bolivious, there's no turning back. You can't un-know what you know. You know?

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

As for me, I would ratherBe a worm in a wild apple than a son of man.

As for me, I would rather be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man. But we are what we are, and we might remember not to hate any person, for all are vicious; And not to be astonished at any evil, all are deserved; And not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

Nature knows that people are a tide that swells and in time will ebb, and all their works dissolve ... As for us: We must uncenter our minds from ourselves. We must unhumanize our views a little and become confident as the rock and ocean that we are made from.

We must uncenter our minds from ourselves; We must unhmanize our views a little, and become confident As the rock and ocean that we were made from.

My gramma used to think that passage when Jesus said, 'In my Father's house are many rooms,' didn't mean there was a big hotel in heaven. It meant there were lots of different ways to worship.

But, Marcie had reminded herself, I don't know the weight of anyone else's burdens—only my own. She didn't judge. She didn't feel smart or strong enough to judge.

What we wish other people would do has nothing to do with us. That's not moral fiber, that's being judgmental and unforgiving." "I've never been judgmental or unforgiving a day in my life," Maureen protested. "Know

We're men, Rick. We're idiots. Ask Mel," he said. "Yeah.

I don't get the big deal myself. If you can die for your country at eighteen, why not have a beer?

I'm simple when you want me to be complicated. And I'm complicated when you want me to be simple.

study. Something you can write up for the American Society of Shrinks—otherwise known

If you hoard other people's tragedies, does that make your own easier to bear?

Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.