Quotes About Perspective

She looked over at him as he drove; he was grinning. "Why are you smiling?" she asked him. He turned to look at her. "I've never been shopping with a woman before," he said. "I didn't hate it.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. —Robert J. Burdette

Listen, young man, everyone has their hard knocks and disappointments. Everyone, not just you. I know for you this is a big one, but it might help to wrap your head around what you have, not what's missing.

I might be a little more of an adult if you're counting years but I bet I have a lower IQ, so that puts us pretty much even.

It was not in her nature to be negative. Why had she failed to remember all the victories?

Maybe you like figuring out why peoples' lives turn out the way they do. It's always a mystery, isn't it?

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau

And that's when he learned that for women, all things are possible, and for men, time is required. There was recovery involved. Women, apparently, could just hop back on that bus, while the men were left to deal with a flat tire. He committed that to memory—these gorgeous creatures needed no time to get ready again.

The secret is learning to accept people as they are, not as you wish them to be.

Don't people disappoint you sometimes?" she asked Mel. "Sure," she said. "But fortunately not as often as they surprise and impress me.

It's time for you to take stock of what you have, not of what you may have lost.

Tell you what, Sunshine—I'm upright, walking around, healthy, have a brain to think with and the option to enjoy my life. Well, I'm not going to take that for granted.

I know, I know, but there was something about the pains we had as kids, the melodrama and agony over things that didn't really matter but mattered so much just the same….

Leslie, it doesn't matter how other people feel about your spouse! Don't you see? You chose him, you had to live with him, he was your package to adore or be fed up with! Once you made your choice, I didn't have a right to an opinion.

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

When God made the firs Raika, that man turned to God and said, "You're something else. You've given me two eyes, two ears, two feet, two hands but only one stomach. It isn't fair. Why did you do it?" God laughed at him and answered, "You foolish Raika, don't you realize how much trouble you're going to have filling one?

I don't know which is worse," Cassidy mused, "when people laugh at things that aren't funny, or when they don't laugh at things that are.

Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

Sometimes a day last an hour, and sometimes it lasts a year

Here's a secret," I said. "There's a difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

It wasn't the life I'd wanted, but it was the life I had, and I was finally starting to accept that.

I didn't realise you'd ridden here on your high horse

The life you pan isn't the life that happens again