Quotes About Perspective

Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone.

Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

So close, I thought. A shorter fence, a fatter dog, and everything would be different. 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.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

Anyway, it was unrealistic to expect to be constantly in the happiest place. In real life, you're lucky just to be always somewhere nearby.

call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

It was the only time I'd ever heard someone ask, Can you grab me the spoon? as opposed to a spoon, which at least connoted there was more than one.

Then, Kristy continued,nodding at her,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,Macy.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.

You need a third option, he said. Yeah. I guess i do. He nodded, absorbing this. Well, he said,For what it's worth, it's been my experience that they don't appear at first. You kind of have to look a little more closely. And when does that happen? He shugged. When you're ready to see them, I guess.

When you only had words, you had to make up for things, say what you might not need to otherwise.

It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tinniest of details,irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while your're busy focusing on the bigger picture.

Nobody was all bad, I was learning. Even the worst person had someone who cared about them at some point - Sydney Stanford

More like a door being opened a tiny crack to let a sliver of light in. It wasn't enough to see clearly by, but from then on, we would never be fully in the dark again.

Mayonnaise," Morgan said, "is a lot like men.

I'd just never really taken the time to picture it. It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-Mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

It's both, it all depends on how you choose to live it. Forever is always changing.' [About if life is short or long]

I was beginning to understand, though, that there were no such tings as absolutes, not in life or in people. Like Owen said, it was day by day, if not moment by moment. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

It's all in the view...that's what I mean about forever...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.

And suddenly I felt completely strange, like the distance between us was much much greater than what I could see from where I was standing. Like that line, always so clear to me, had somehow shifted, or never even been where I'd thought it was at all.

Almost, I thought. Out loud I said, Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close. Auden

Isn't it weird the way you remember things, when someone's gone?

No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn't happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they're important ones...you might as well hold on to them.

No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life -Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key

Later, it would take me a minute to remember how exactly it happened. If I turned around and moved forward first, or he did. I just knew we didn't meet halfway. It was just a short distance really, not worth squabbling over. And maybe it didn't matter so much whether he took the step or I did. All I knew was that he was there.