Quotes About Perspective

If someone had told me I'd spend the first night of my honeymoon watching another woman giving my husband head—and liking it—a few years before, or even a few weeks before, I'd have thought they were crazy.

To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in any way shared, that it's a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don't find you and your dream utterly revolting.

What I eventually came to understand, about San Francisco, was that I was immersed in beauty and barred from seeing it.

All the talk of regret. They make you form your life around one thing, the thing you did, and you have to grow yourself from what cannot be undone: they want you to make something from nothing. They make you hate them and yourself. They make it seem that they are the world, and you've betrayed it, them, but the world is so much bigger.

And if someone did remember them, someone besides me, that person's account would make them less real, because my memory of them would have to be corrected by facts, which are never considerate of what makes an impression, what stays in the mind after all these years, the very real images that grip me from the erased past and won't let go.

We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.

it is easier to like difficult people when they are leaving, or already gone.

By caring just that much less than whatever you ante as indifference.

Haberlerin özelli?i bunlar?n hiçbir zaman sizin ba??n?za gelmemesidir.

Assess the rightness of a potential partner on his own terms and not just by comparing him to the ones before him - especially if they broke your heart.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

As a human being, I know I can never hope to have the depth and breadth of perspective to know whether any of my actions will ultimately harm or heal.

The power of the expert is very great and the way in which an expert sees you may easily become the way in which you see yourself.

the best cure for Communist ideals is to live, even for a short time, under a Communist regime.

Theodore Roosevelt's quote: "Comparison is the thief of joy.

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.

she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see

A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

Sometimes you think you know what you want, she said, hugging her children, until you see how much more you can have.

she's sad a lot. She's sad in the way Laura wears glasses and Max has freckles and Beth is retarded. There's no reason, it's just the way it is.

Privilege is like oxygen. You don't realize it's there until it's gone.

Whenever I have a problem, I sing. Then I realize my voice is a lot worse than my problem.