Quotes About Perspective

In reality happiness is a state of mind - it is an experience

You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.

Most people think we believe our experience. This is not true; we experience what we believe.

You flatter yourself...you're too young for me to take you seriously.

In ordinary life, we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

So he thinks he has a baby and everything falls into place? What gets me is, people have babies and they're thinking what the baby will do for them . It's sick.

And after all, belief was a beautiful thing. That was the trouble with atheists (Kate thought); they might be right, but their unbelief was utilitarian, bleak, like a Brutalist building.

My ex—who was an academic—and I used to argue about the best way to broil a salmon. Neither of us was grateful for the gift that someone else might cook it, albeit slightly incorrectly. It was a horrible way to live.

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.

Dalia was the only one in Israel who understood," Bashir insisted.

Your life isn't something you can leave behind or run away from, because you are it. People, on the other hand, are another matter altogether.

We're not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spirits having a human experience.

There was nothing like losing something to make one value its worth.

She was one of those shallow people who rewrote their own history and believed in the absolute truth of their own version.

Culta? Perdone que le diga, Víctor, pero es la primera persona que conozco que no ha sido capaz de leerse completo el diario de Ana Frank.

Las historias tristes ocurren a veces en lugares tristes, como las estaciones de tren o los aeropuertos. Entonces la gente lo nota y lo comenta, y todos dicen que en verdad los aeropuertos y las estaciones de tren son sitios tristísimos, tan tristes que no dan ganas de volver a viajar pues a nadie le gusta meterse de lleno en la tristeza, y encima por esos precios.

El dolor es egoísta. El que sufre se siente único y piensa que el mundo le debe algo

El cómico francés Coluche tenía un tremebundo chiste: "en la primera guerra mundial, hubo 75% de víctimas militares y 25% civiles. En la segunda, 50% militares y 50% civiles". Y remataba diciendo: "¡En la próxima será mejor ser militar!

Supongo que nuestra memoria es como una película de asesinos en serie. Cada giro de la historia cambia el sentido total. Miras atrás y los detalles antes relevantes ya no son los que creías.

Si uno vive en un mundo de falsedades, esas falsedades son la realidad.

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

But think of this: those of us who arrive in an academy that was not shaped by or for us bring knowledges, as well as worlds, that otherwise would not be here. Think of this: how we learn about worlds when they do not accommodate us. Think of the kinds of experiences you have when you are not expected to be here. These experiences are a resource to generate knowledge.

When we decide to see things one way we are often incapable of seeing them any other way.

There's nothing that isn't worth writing about. If you look closely at your life you'll find plenty to write about there, too.