Quotes About Perspective

The woman I was seems hopelessly naive. I envy her.

Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree?

When someone we love dies suddenly and tragically, it's like seeing the curvature of the earth. You always knew it was round, a contained sphere floating in space. But when you see the bend in the horizon line, it changes your perspective on everything else.

It was human nature to see only what you want to see, and nothing would change that, no matter what tools people had at their disposal. The truth is only what you think it is.

But mainly, people were so wrapped up in their own inner hurricane that they never saw anything outside the storm of themselves.

Totally different outcomes; we've made totally different choices in our lives. Like I said, how you were raised is part of the big picture. It's one important factor in a million. But in the end, it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them.

Arguments are almost never about the thing they're about.

It's lovely when people accept your gift with gratitude, but you can't control that. You can only control your intention.

But really it's a reminder that every moment is precious, and that nothing matters as much as you think it does. Because death is certain, its time uncertain.

The more you must assert your own reality to people, the crazier you seem.

But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel

But the foliage of mundane life just grew over the past a bit every day if you let it. And maybe that was the most extraordinary event of all.

As far as Eloise was concerned, there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Harry Houdini had a saying that came back to Ian now and again: For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, none will suffice.

Dreams come true, I guess, just not always how you imagine them.

Story is life, Miss Graves," he said. She'd heard him say that a million times. She finally understood what he meant.

I see all the kids—the popular ones, the brains, the jocks, the punks, the burnouts. They are not who they will become. This moment, teenage life, it feels like the whole universe, but it's only a millisecond.

there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who don't, none will suffice.

And for a split second Cleo saw the value in living openly. Liberation was Windex for the soul. It let the light shine through. But why dwell? Nothing was ever going to change.

Inspiration is all around us. Don't let the brain limit the mind .

Miniatures made her feel like she was larger than life, like the world was in the palm of her hand.

While we're obsessed with here and now, God is focused on forever.