Quotes About Perspective

Marilah kita bergembira. Ingatlah bahwa kemalangan yang paling sulit ditanggung adalah yang tidak pernah menimpa kita.

We live in snow globes, don't we? Pick them up, shake them, years swirl about us and settle.

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,' he said. We're not opposites.' I don't mean just you and me. Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

How bloated we all are to think that our childhoods matter, that anybody really cares about our little lives.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

It always matters who the storyteller is. It's a lens.

groups that are too much alike find it harder to keep learning, because each member is bringing less and less new information to the table. Homogeneous groups are great at doing what they do well, but they become progressively less able to investigate alternatives.

You make it sound like the end of the world," said Pritchard. "Not yet," Jensen told him, as he walked away, "but you can see it from here.

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing." —

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Your perspective guides your thoughts, your choices, your trajectory.

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.