Quotes About Perspective

Maybe every man has two such women—at least two. Marry a red rose and eventually she'll be a mosquito-blood streak smeared on the wall, while the white one is "moonlight in front of my bed." Marry a white rose, and before long she'll be a grain of sticky rice that's gotten stuck to your clothes; the red one, by then, is a scarlet beauty mark just over your heart.

I guess I'd rather remember the good things than throw them all out with the bad.

You cannot speak of the ocean to a well frog, nor sing of ice to a summer insect. She will not understand.

why is it that the things that matter most, we get so close, we don't see them?

I think being with a person is better than caring about them. I cared about them. I cared about them more than their relatives did, and I didn't care about them at all.

If boys were always trying to get in girls' pants, what did they want? What could the girls give them? Pee it seemed to me was an appropriate gift.

The best thing you can do for a writer is give them a bad review.

Advice is like shit. Don't pass it around and don't take someone else's." -Cynna

Advice is like shit. Don't pass it around and don't take someone else's.

Other people's problems always seem so fixable compared to our own.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.

I wonder how Mr. Brinks would react if I told him my doctor was the surftastic cameraman he fist-bumped earlier in the week.

Don't try to control the future," he would say. "Work on the one thing you can learn to control: your own responses.

This is what we should do in a disagreement: play half the time for the other side, half the time for our own. It is not a question of sacrificing principles; this is the only way to see the whole.

We never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system.

Attitude is more important than reality.

Every session you lead has two radio stations: WII-FM (What's in It for Me?) and MMFG-AM (Make Me Feel Good About Me).

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

But what the hell, I told myself, it wasn't as if I were one of them or even competing with them, for heaven's sake, I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life. The scientist dropping into the zoo at feeding time. That is what I told myself.

The more I see of the world the more I realize how much we are haunted by our childhood dreams.

Art is not an object, but a way of looking at an object.