Quotes About Perspective

Stephanie Mines is brilliant in her ability to articulate the complexities of shock and trauma, along with the framework for healing that she has developed. This makes her classes deeply gratifying and inspiring. I now have invaluable tools that support me in caring for myself, as well as skills and a new perspective that helps me in my care of others.

My best day ever. Got up. Had breakfast. Came to school. Bored, as usual. Wishing I wasn't there, like usual. Kids ignoring me, suits me fine. Sitting with the other retards—we're so special. Wasting my time. Yesterday was the same, and it's gone, anyway. Tomorrow may never come. There is only today. This is the best day and the worst day. Actually it's crap.

Even if a poem is beautiful and memorable, it's not like an advertising jingle or propaganda, which attempt to convince and control. Poems seek to confuse, disabuse, enlarge understanding, and make people ask questions and think for themselves.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Do you believe in God, Martin?' And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?' 'I'm not sure...' 'Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.

But do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it's painted.

this thing seems more dreadful than anything else that has ever happened, more utterly dreadful — but you'll find that it will pass and be completely forgotten —

The new pop song is about getting real: "You had a bad day." The camera don't lie. But they're lying to you about the camera.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

What does that matter when he makes me happy?" There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her shoulders, as if she wondered for just a moment what that kind of freedom might feel like.

Maybe God posted signs visible only to those with eyes to see. She wasn't one of them, but she could accept that maybe her husband was.

He should have remembered that particular joy of small-town life before he moved back. Everywhere a guy turned, he stumbled over hot, steaming piles of history.

You know what they say. Don't be sorry that it ended. Be glad that it happened.

You're the person you are today because of everything that has happened to you.

You should never be worried about how many likes you're getting but on the life you're creating.

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.

Me río de mí mismo cuando soy ese infeliz que se mira el ombligo y cree saber mucho de la vida.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

if you become angry over little things, the big issues are never even addressed. As

I don't know if I liked my life then, I just lived it.

Being abroad gave me the tongue of a child, and soon it gave me a child's heart to match. You know that heart and tongue are made from the same flesh.

When I think of the future, I never see myself moving forward in time. I actually see time moving backward towards me.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.