Quotes About Perspective

I was walking down the street today," she said, "and I thought, I am probably dying. And then I thought, should we have cherries or pears at lunch? And the two things felt too much the same.

I went to Cambodia to be humbled by the pain of others, and I was humbled down to the ground.

The Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno wrote, "It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

the polar opposite of suffering [is] boredom." I believe that pain needs to be transformed but not forgotten; gainsaid but not obliterated. I

there is no universal standard of well-being.

It is this acute awareness of transience and limitation that constitutes mild depression.

If the earth could feed itself and us without rain, and if we conquered the weather and declared permanent sun, would we not miss grey days and summer storms?

Time doesn't heal, it just gives you other things to think about.

Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.

At its worst, privilege is blindness: Amid the vast literature on race and privilege, one especially useful book from a Christian perspective for those from the dominant culture is Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp, Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004).

Yes it is," says the monster.

Terry shrugged. "Nah, not really," he said. "Sea-monkeys aren't that interesting after all." "Never mind," I said. "Let's get back to work." Soon we were back at our table, about to start work on the next story, when we heard a loud crash.

Take a look at this." "Those poor little ants," says Jill.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

Just because people throw it out and don't have any use for it, doesn't mean it's garbage.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say 'so what'. That's one of my favorite things to say.

I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art if you see it as art. The best art are those dime novels. People will put those books in a museum one day. Artists will make paintings of them. They're beautiful. And for everyone. That's how I want my art to be.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.