Quotes About Perspective

But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.

I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.' 'No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you're saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.

It wasn't so much that I was positive. I just wasn't fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

She shook her head. Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you. You said the other day life was long, I shot back. Which is it? It's both, she said, shrugging. It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.

I looked at the sweatshirt again. 'You swim' is a philosophy? He shrugged. Better than 'you sink', right?

From up above, in a plane passing over, you'd just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.

One word, Ted replied, dead serious, can change the whole world. There was a moment while we all considered this. Finally Lissa said to Chloe, loud enough for all of us to hear (she'd had a minibottle or two herself), I bet he did really well on his SATs.

You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

Life was very short, literally. But now that I'm better, it seems so long I have to squint to see even the edges of it. It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

Nothing changes for three years, and then suddenly everything does all at once. Maybe those other people's summers I've envied weren't all fun either. You never really know anything until it's happening to you.

Once, this had been the life I'd wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn't believe that there had been a time when this kind of monotony and silence, this most narrow of existences, had been preferable. Then again, once, I'd never known anything else.

You said the other day life was long,' I shot back. 'Which is it?' 'It's both,' she said, shrugging. 'It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.' Kristy and Macy; p.135

Well, here we are, Ethan said. The end of the world. I smiled, turning slightly to take in the full view. It's different to what I expected. The big stuff always is, he said.

Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous- Keeping the Moon

I don't know, I said. Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really? He thought for a moment. Who says there has to be a point? he asked. Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do. He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.

How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.

It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing.