Quotes About Perspective

I don't have too many lines ingrained upon my face. I look rather pixieish. Sometimes I wish that as I get older my eyes would become lined and take on more character. It just looks like I haven't suffered enough in my life.

What happened in Nanking, I couldn't claim that as my tragedy. I was not affected. I was not killed.

Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn't want to believe.

My friend, my editor, still had the cancer. Each day she had to cross a terrible chasm, a bottomless hole of not knowing what to hope or believe. I tried to imagine what she saw, but I did not have her perspective.

Isn't the past what people remember- who did what, how and why? And what the people remember, isn't that mostly what they've already chosen to believe?

Ruth believed Wendy made her life more sparkly, but today was not a good time for sparkles.

Too much happiness, said the man who returned, always overflows into tears of sorrow.

If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp. —Plutarch

Las personas libres jamás podrán concebir lo que los libros significan para quienes vivimos encerrados.

Las personas que tienen una religión deberían de estar contentas, porque no a todos les es dado creer en cosas sobrenaturales.

Tengo más experiencia que los demás, he vivido algo que casi nadie conoce a mi edad

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people's.

We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.

Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place.   —Diary 6, pg. 52

If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

I have always been tormented by the image of multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I see it as a disease, a proliferation as dangerous as cancer. My first concept about people around me was that all of them were coordinated into a WHOLE, whereas I was made up of a multitude of selves, of fragments.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.

The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.