Quotes About Perspective

I have . . . learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one or the other

But whether he was happy or not was hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither.

Most of the kids I know read only manga, but I prefer novels. Novels are closer to real life than manga, it's like they show you the real world with one layer peeled away, a reality you can't see otherwise.

Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.

Try to think like a human,' said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs. 'Why should I restrict myself so severely?

I used to be afraid of dying. Now I'm afraid of not living. There's a difference. We go through life planning for a future, but sometimes that future never comes.

What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you're the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

Tools are neither demonic nor divine. It's all about who wields them.

It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.

One thing yo learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

Don Quixote - the famous literary madman - fought windmills. People think he saw giants when he looked at them, but those of us who've been there know the truth. He saw windmills, just like everyone else - but he believed they were giants. The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge? Allie considered this. Meaning? Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads. Or tails, suggested Allie. What are you talking about? said Lief. Life and death.

It is the plight of every child to have depth their parents can scarcely imagine.

Respect doesn't come without a little resentment.

Nothing awful is without its beautiful side.

What can fingerprints mean when they're not necessarily yours?

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

You don't just go to somebody and say, 'I'm a better person because you're in my head.