Quotes About Perspective

My father has this irritating habit of saying the same thing whenever something bad happens. This, too, shall pass, he says. What annoys me is that he's always right about it. What annoys me even more is that he always reminds me later when it does pass, as a smug I told you so.

who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured?

Eres una persona horrible. Eres una persona maravillosa. -Bueno, ¿cuál de las dos? -¿Por qué no entiendes que la respuesta es ambas?

Big-Picture-speak, Risa calls it. Seeing the whole, and none of the parts.

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

you're far from the greatest mind on Earth.

Now he's far away, floating in the clouds, playing Scrabble with the Dalai Lama, but wouldn't you know it, all the tiles are in Tibetan.

Tyger Salazar had been his best friend—but such designations meant little after one has spent a year learning how to kill. Rowan imagined it must be what mortal-age soldiers felt when they returned from war. Old friendships seemed trapped behind a clouded curtain of experiences that old friends didn't share.

I choose to see the positive in this. How wonderful it is that I have now been allowed to experience wrath and fury! It makes me more complete, does it not?

Mieux vaut avoir tort qu'être mort. — père de Kelton

Você aprende uma coisa depois de ter vivido tanto quanto eu vivi: as pessoas não são completamente boas nem completamente ruins. A gente passa a vida toda entrando e saindo das sombras e da luz. Neste momento eu estou feliz por estar na luz.

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

E, a meu ver, todos são inocentes. Mesmo os culpados. Todo mundo é culpado de alguma coisa e todo mundo ainda guarda uma memória da inocência da infância, não importa quantas camadas de vida a cubram. A humanidade é inocente; a humanidade é culpada; ambas as afirmações são inegavelmente verdadeiras.

His one-eight feels a whole lot bigger when I spend time hanging around in his grey matter.

Today I am determined to rejoice in what we've gained, rather than what was lost. Both in the world, and personally.

Why am I seeing a beach ball?

It's neither negative nor positive in itself-it's what you do with the attention that matters.

But yes, it is sad to live and die without knowing the truth of one's existence. Only sad to us, however. Not to them.

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.

For you nothing has changed." "Everything has changed, sir." "Perhaps everything will change again.

But . . . but I'm only ninety-six

I know the thing the Tonists believe are ridiculous, Citra said, but I suppose to some people, there's something compelling about them. That's what turkeys think about the rain, Marie pointed out. They raise their eyes heavenward, open up their beaks, and drown.

The Thunderhead has its reasons for everything," the nonplussed colleague said. "The fact that we can't see the logic shows our limitations, not the Thunderhead's.

What person in their right mind would want to feel that kind of pain?" "Rightmindedness is overrated," Goddard said. "I'd rather have a mind that's clear than one that's 'right.'