Quotes About Perspective

Life is like a bad haircut. At first it looks awful, then you kind of get used to it, and before you know it, it grows out and you gotta get another haircut that maybe won't be so bad... So life goes on, good haircut, bad haircut, until finally you go bald, and it don't matter no more.

I don't forgive him-I merely understand him.

Things pass. Even big things. And when they're far behind us, they don't look as big anymore.

No mirrors in the real world had the ability to reach inside you the way these did. You could tell yourself that the mirrors were simply telling lies, but you'd be wrong. They took tiny truths, swelling them out of proportion?and the fact that there was a kernel of truth in what they reflected made the effect devastating.

But just because we have the ability to label it, doesn't mean we really know what's in the box.

One thing you 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.

she says, "A penny for your thoughts?" I don't feel like sharing my thoughts, so instead I challenge the question. "Really? Is that all they're worth? A penny?" She sighs. "It's just an expression, Caden." "Well, find out when the expression was thought up, and then adjust for inflation." She shakes her head. "Only you would go there, Caden." Then she leaves me to stew in thoughts I refuse to sell.

Being made to suffer pain frees us to feel the joy of being human.

No me pareces espantoso.Es simplemente que no hay modo de medirte. Es como contemplar un Picasso y tratar de decidir si la mujer del cuardo es guapa o fea. Uno no lo sabe, pero no puede dejar de mirarla. -Me ves como una obra de arte. Eso me parece bien. -Sí, bueno... pero nunca me ha gustado Picasso.

Everything has meaning, or nothing has meaning. Which world would you rather live in?

Reality is overrated—but they'll remember thinking they knew the secrets of the universe

Funny how morality, which always seems so black and white can be influenced so completely by what you were raised to believe.

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out.

while it's five in the morning here, it's also five in the evening somewhere in China—proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective.

everything can—and will—change in an instant. People, truths, whole realities. The trick is deciding if a certain change is good, or bad, or some other thing we don't yet have words for.

Indeed, nothing awful is without its beautiful side.

Yes, yes, but you have to remember people take from a situation the thing that they need.

No matter how smart we think we are, we simply can't know all there is to now-and if you spend all your time thinking about those things, it will drive you crazy.

Well, this place was not purgatory, Nirvana, or any sort of rebirth, and it occurred to Nick that regardless of what people believed, the universe had its own ideas.

Never ask how. At that moment, it felt like the wisest advice I had ever gotten.

So we make decisions and base our lives on those decisions, never realizing we're only seeing one-tenth of the whole. Then we cling to our narrow conclusions like our lives depend on it.

I suppose even a simple slogan can be twisted into whatever shape we want, like a balloon animal—we can even make it loop back around on itself, becoming a noose. In the end, the measure of who we are can be seen in the shapes of our balloon animals.

Compound eyes confound lies.

Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well?