Quotes About Perspective

I was using, I tell her. And God was my drug dealer. She doesn't get it. Tripping on my own brain chemicals. The dope I was doing was already inside.

Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion.

Just as the airplane graveyard was Heaven disguised as Hell, harvest camp is Hell masquerading Heaven.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

There are two things you know. One: You were there. Two: You couldn't have been there.

In a perfect world mothers would all want their babies, and strangers would open up their homes to the unloved. In a perfect world everthing would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

We are not the enemy," he says. "That's what the enemy always says.

The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.

Even though the whole world had slid of its axis. Breakfast was breakfast. How dare it be?

There are no wrong thoughts, only thoughts that need to be worked through and overcome.

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless.

The longer we live, the quicker the days seem to pass. How troublesome that is when we live forever. A year seems to pass in a matter of weeks. Decades fly with no milestones to mark them. We become settled in the inconsequential drudgery of our own lives, until suddenly we look at ourselves in the mirror and see a face we barely recognize begging us to turn a corner and be young again.

It wasn't just that he didn't see the big picture, sometimes he saw a different picture entirely.

The Admiral's using us, he says to the kids around him. Don't you see that? Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. I'd rather be used whole than in pieces, Hayden says.

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

Exactly," says the parrot. "WHY are you here? Or should I ask 'Why are YOU here?' Or 'Why are you HERE?

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

I believed, in my arrogance, that I had a keen grasp of the big picture that others lacked. But of course, I was just as limited as anyone else. When I gleaned the president and his cabinet, it shook the world – but the world was already shaking just fine without me.

If every part of you is alive but inside someone else . . . are you alive or are you dead?

Happiness is a vector. It can only be defined by the speed at which you're moving away from pain.

The best we can hope for is to be humble in our arrogance.

Wars were fought over the different interpretations of the same doctrine.

We can put off things far more effectively than those doomed to die, because death has become the exception instead of the rule.

I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch