Quotes About Perspective

You are not me, those eyes say. You never were, you never will be.

At home they expect you to be fixed, she says. They say they understand, but the only people who really understand are the ones who've been to That Place, too. It's like a man telling a woman he knows what it feels like to give birth

People are vessels, Jeri had said to her. The hold whatever's poured into them.

Count your blessings," the captain says. "And if you count less than ten, cut off the remaining fingers.

In a perfect world everything 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.

In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless. That`s what he was saying, and it infuriated Citra, because on a certain level, she knew he was right.

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.

And as I see it, they're all innocents. Even the guilty. Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood inno- cence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is inno- cent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.

We'd see, we'd hear, we'd feel so deeply that we might never resurface. 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 think you're decent.' 'Maybe, maybe not. 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. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

You're on the other side of the glass even before you step outside.

Rightmindness is overrated, Goddard said. I'd rather have a mind that's clear than a mind that's right.

I can't help what I have any more than you can help what you don't

It is human nature to take the most magical of worlds for granted, turning each one into a blank canvas upon which to paint the lives of those who would live there. Only an outsider can see a world's wonders for what they truly are.

I'm so thankful to be alive right now, he could take credit for the faked lunar landings and I wouldn't care.

Cuando uno no puede ganar, lo mejor es que haga un chiste de la derrota.

In a perfect world, everything would either be 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 learn many things, from many people as opposed to your world, where you're taught all the same things, by the same people.

The difference between you and me...is that when I look at the world, I see opportunity. When you look at the world, you're just trying to find a place to urinate.

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. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

I know it's all true, but I can never prove what happens to people I don't know in places I can't see.

Are people really such sheep that they can be fooled? Maybe. Or maybe with so much conflicting media, people just shut down. Maybe that's the point.

Dying was easy. A paper cut? That would be annoying.