Quotes About Perspective

We do not become different people as we age; we just add layers of experience onto who we already are.

we play the cards we've been dealt—as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says—based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards.

This is how it is for all of us. Life will send us across a bridge we did not want to cross, but when we finally open our eyes on the other side, we see that there had been nothing to fear at all.

Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be.

But life is lived at the moment you are living it, she thought. No one but God in heaven has the benefit of seeing beyond today.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful.

I guess our eyes don't change much from when we were young. Perhaps it's just how we see things that changes.

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason.

Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it

You don't realize how small your world is when you are a child. Your parents are your east and west, your sun and moon.

That the past is nothing you can make friends or enemies of. It just is what it is. Or was. It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will.

Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.

what we see is not always what is. And what is, we often cannot see until we train our eyes to see it.

To her, there was only one shade to every color. This was the difference between us. She was happy with the one shade.

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason. Those people are not the ones who wish they could fold back time and make different choices. They don't lie awake at night and whisper, If only . . .

found out how fast things can change. You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find out pretty quick you were looking at the wrong road.

my life seemed more fully layered because of the choices I had made, both consciously and in ignorance. I

Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason. Those people are not the once who wish they could fold back time and make different choice. They don't lie awake at night and whisper , If only.....

What's there to remember if not the good things?

Sometimes it's not about right and wrong but now and later. Right now, we are having to put up with a difficult situation that we don't deserve, and it's not right.

I don't see how you can live in a black and white world without becoming…uncreative. You can't make anything new. Everything already is what it is.

Nice* was a word that I'd not been able to say in such a long time, and it encompassed so much in that moment. It truly did. *Nice* is a throwaway word until it's not.

guess our eyes don't change much from when we were young. Perhaps it's just how we see things that changes.