Quotes About Perspective

She shakes her head. "No. Other people look. You see. Looking isn't the same as seeing." And with that completely bizarre statement, she gets up and leaves. My mouth falls open a little at the abruptness of it all.

We all live as if we are going to live forever. When you know you won't, life looks different.

Well, if you enjoy life while you have it, then it doesn't matter how long you have it for. No one knows how long they get to live. It's like a deal you make when you're born, you know, to accept what happens to you.

Looking isn't the same as seeing

I may not personally approve of their choices. I may find their choices distasteful. Nevertheless, every choice a woman makes enriches me because it expands my range of alternatives-even if it is an alternative I can't imagine ever pursuing myself.

The mere fact that some women are upset by the presence of pornography tells us very little. It tells us nothing about whether porn is right or wrong, valuable or useless. After all, feminism distresses a great many people. Yet feminists would argue that the movement should not only be tolerated, it should be nurtured. They consider women's rights to have a positive, rather than a negative effect on society-even if it causes distress. Perhaps the same is true of the graphic depiction of sex.

We see, too, how Christopher is at a stage in his disease where he can't remember the word for moon, but it doesn't matter, he knows it's something beautiful in the sky, isn't that enough?

We take a snapshot of our teens in their current phase and mistake it for the epic movie of their entire life.

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I was thrown in jail in Hungary, but it was like a five-star hotel compared to my time in our jails in Syria.

We had money, but there was nothing to buy. Instead, my husband would collect grass and leaves and we'd fry them in olive oil.

In "The Decay of Lying" Oscar Wilde asserts that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Things may need to be said, but not necessarily heard by the other.

happiness is a state of mind. The glass is half empty. The glass is half full. It's pouring rain. The flowers will grow. I am going to die one day. I am alive on this day.

Creo que a veces tener demasiada información puede ser muy malo. Fuerza nuestra atención a vagar sin rumbo, hasta que ya no sabemos dónde tenemos la cabeza y no somos capaces de ver lo que tenemos delante de las narices

Creemos lo que queremos creer. Creemos lo que necesitamos creer. Quizá no haya diferencia entre querer y necesitar. No lo sé. Lo que sí sé es que la verdad se nos puede escapar, esconderse en nuestro punto ciego, en nuestras ideas preconcebidas, en nuestros corazones hambrientos que anhelan tranquilidad. Pero sigue estando ahí cuando abrimos los ojos y tratamos de verla. Si realmente intentamos verla

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. —LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

We're professional liars, aren't we? It's our job to keep the story interesting.

What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.

You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate.

The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot