Quotes About Perspective

Cuando crezcas te darás cuenta de que casi todo lo que se oye por la noche puede interpretarse de diversas formas. Y de hecho, no sólo por la noche y no sólo lo que se oye: también lo que se ve, e incluso lo que se ve a plena luz del día, puede casi siempre entenderse de muchas formas.

Una vez aprendió, tal vez de su esposa Stefa, que el tiempo es algo subjetivo, una especie de intensa emoción. Y por eso mostraba un amargo desprecio por el tiempo.

Tento realçar a nossa capacidade de de nos imaginarmos uns aos outros. Façamo-lo a todos os níveis, começando pelo mais quotidiano. Imaginemos o outro quando lutamos, imaginemos o outro quando nos queixamos, imaginemos o outro precisamente quando sentimos que temos cem por cento de razão. Mesmo quando se tem cem por cento de razão e o outro está cem por cento equivocado, continua a ser útil imaginar o outro.

men can't help themselves, that's just the way they are made, but women in her view are actually not much better, and that's why love is something that one way or another always turns out badly.

If they were not Indian, Devi was sure they'd be divorced.

The Golden Notebook

They do not want the truth. They want to hear details that will confirm their misconceptions, that will validate their fears.

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

What I think, Chatty says, is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

There's so much I can't read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.

For example, the questions that say, Would you prefer... Would you prefer (a) Answer questions about what you do, (b) Answer questions about what you know, (c) Answer questions about what you think? My answer is Depends. But it's not one of the choices. I am having to think in terms of Always, Sometimes, Never.

A famous artist is approached by a student. You don't remember me, the student says correctly, but years ago you said something that changed my life. You said, 'Photography is death.' After that, says the student, I threw out my camera. I began again. I want to thank you for changing my life. Leave me alone, says the artist. Photography is life.

Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.

he married the most beautiful woman he ever saw and learned the irrelevance of beauty.

I remember thinking: There will never come a time when I will not be thinking of this. And I was right. And I was wrong

We keep wanting people to be different.

I leave a lot out when I tell the truth. The same when I write a story.

while the world worlds up at us."   I

I would have written this next part into the story if anybody would have believed it. But who would have? I was there and I didn't believe it.

It is just possible I will say I stayed the night. And who is there that can say that I did not?

Ho esagerato ancora prima di cominciare, perché è vero: niente è mai grave quanto potrebbe essere.