Quotes About Perspective

E penso a quel detto che ripetono sempre tutti: la vita è dura... e poi muori. A dire il vero, non è affatto così. Questo lo dicono loro. La vita è dura: su questo hanno ragione. Ma quei giorni che dovrebbero essere la parte peggiore? Su questo si sbagliano. E' la tua vita, il resto della tua vita, la parte peggiore.

Mi immaginavo noi due che cuocevamo le mele per Natale, quegli stupidi quadretti romantici alla Currier e Ives... pensavo per tutto il tempo: A volte quello che abbiamo passa per amore, quando invece avrei dovuto pensare: L'amore passa.

There is the world as it exists, and then, just next to it, the world one creates in order to exist. The boundaries limited only by ones imagination.

There are proponents of New Year's Eve, and there are proponents of regular Tuesday nights. I am one of the latter, much happier residing in the wake of the mundane.

10. About these coincidences, the data and mathematicians are clear: Such things happen all the time. Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded, There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. 11. I'm going with B, everything.

If one is generously contracted 80 years, that amounts to 29,220 days on Earth. Playing that out, how many more times then, really, do I get to look at a tree? 12,395? There has to be an exact number. Let's just say it is 12,395. Absolutely, that is a lot, but it is not infinite, and anything less than infinite seems too measly a number and is not satisfactory. Also, I would like to stare at my kids a few million more times. I could stare at them a few million more times easy.

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Georgia couldn't see the wood from the trees any longer, particularly where Wickenham Manor was concerned. They'd been thrashing it out over the weekend, but getting nowhere. 'Why

They don't see what they're doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.

How is destruction beautiful? He asked in a challenging tone. You may think that a broken egg is ugly and messy, she answered, but the cake it goes into is beautiful and won't hold together without it. Eggs don't get blown up. They get broken. You've never seen me bake, she replied with a smirk.

It doesn't take objectivity to know what you want, and you're not objective enough to know what you need.

He had no interest in another person, in imagining what it might be like to be on the other side.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

What is the past but what we choose to remember?

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming , no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming , she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

It means we're looking one way, while following another. We're for one side and also the other. We mean what we say, but our intentions are different.

Dementia was like a truth serum.

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.

we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

Lack of clarity is a writer's truth.

I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones.

Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief.