Quotes About Perspective

She keeps coming over to my table and asking me if everything's all right, as though I might be able to reassure her that the world is not coming to an end. "Yes," I tell her. "Everything's fine. It's just history running its course." She smiles sweetly and flees.

My life seemed like a speck of dust in comparison to the universe.

Here's the thing: money never has meant that much to me, not even in the sense of keeping score. If we had enough groceries, and a nice place to live, plenty of room to keep and feed my bird dogs, a place to hunt, a place to play tennis, and the means to get the lads good educations—that's rich. No question about

Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community.

Sometimes you just have to take the time to appreciate a good thing, even if it doesn't necessarily bring you exactly what you want -Obama

Sometimes you just have to take the time to appreciate a good thing, even if it doesn't necessarily bring you exactly what you want

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about

All of a sudden the world opened up and it's doing it again now. In this garden there are so many stories, so many other problems besides mine.

I don't think that I am happy, but then again, I don't know. Sometimes I get so caught up in the process of living-- of eating, dressing, taking the train to work, that I don't give it enough thought. Maybe happiness is being content. But is it really?

We need a voice from the outside because our own voices cannot be trusted.

It's good to know that I'm not the only unsuicidal person thinking about killing herself.

Everyone is looking up toward us, but I am looking back.

An eye here, lips there, all misplaced and disjointed, all make sense.

I finally feel far enough away from it to gain perspective on everything that's happened to me and everything I've done.

I wonder if I am too close to even see what is written on them. This close, everything is just a blurry mess.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own, and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.