Quotes About Perspective

If I'd ever seen what love really could do, or was, maybe I'd have believed in it from the start. But too much of my life had been spent watching marriages come together and then fall apart. So I understood, yes. But sometimes, like lately, I wished that I didn't, not at all.    

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?

We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them into our own sparse memories.

Macy: Seriously. What's it like?' Wes: Being perfect? I wouldn't know. Macy: Not being perfect. Being... gorgeous. Wes: Again, I wouldn't know. You tell me.

Bueno, siempre era una lata dejarlo todo y marcharnos de nuevo. Pero también depende de cómo se mire. Si lo consideras un cambio demoledor que te va a arruinar la vida, estás perdida. Pero si lo tomas como una repetición, como una oportunidad de reinventarte y comenzar de nuevo, entonces está muy bien. Estábamos en Lakeview a principios de enero. A partir de ahora, podría ser quien yo quisiera.

The thing is, you can't always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns. Otherwise, how could I have all these things and still be so close to my own Best After Ever?

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside.

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

Everyone's life shapes them in their own unique way.

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

In a marriage, it's not just whether you see the glass as half-full or half-empty. It's whether you see it those two ways, or any of the other endless fractions that are possible.

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.

But as I dropped my hand from my eyes to say this to Jamie, I realized I couldn't see him anymore. My view was blocked by my sister, who had moved to stand between us, one hand stretched out behind her, toward me.

You were happy at the time, though," I said. "That has to count for something.

You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. I

Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sorts of reasons. You've got to at least understand.

Sometimes Holly could start to see the order in things, she got a glimmer of a pattern. And that thing everyone seems to say these days, about how things always happen for a reason- Holly was getting close to being willing to concede that that was maybe, possibly true.

Y no digo que no sean felices. Sólo que hay que tener mucho cuidado con lafelicidad. Porque tiene tendencia a ser temporal.

If you're content not having sex with your partner, that's fine. But you might want to consider the following fact. Most people are having sex with somebody. - Constance Waverly, The Waverly Report

We all have a strong preference that life should be easy, comfortable, and pain-free, but that doesn't mean there's something wrong with life when it isn't those things. It's just life. It's just life and it's not how you would prefer it to be, but that doesn't mean there's something wrong with it. - Constance Waverly, - Waverly Radio podcast #132

You'll never know what your mother went through.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.