Quotes About Perspective

If you dream that you are flying and continue to believe that you can fly even after you wake up, that becomes a problem.

Proud families spend fortunes on a one-day wedding ceremony for a marriage that may or may not last, while on the same day, in the same village, people are dying of starvation. A tourist makes a show of giving a ten-dollar tip to the doorman for pushing a revolving door, and the next minute he's bargaining for a five-dollar T-shirt from a vendor who is trying to support her baby and family.

I don't intend him, or any man or any woman, to be all my life - good heavens, no! There are heaps of things in me that he doesn't, and shall never, understand.

Poor girl? I fail to understand the point of that remark. I think myself a very fortunate girl, I assure you. I'm thoroughly happy, and having a splendid time. Pray don't waste time mourning over me. There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

"It's broccoli, dear.""I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating."

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.

The problem is I can think whatever I think but I still feel the way I feel.

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to get the situation where you want it to be.

Why is it a good idea for you and not a good idea for me?

Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.

There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?