Quotes About Perspective

in the cartoon of Sight. It

Everything engravers do gets printed opposite. The engraver has to be able to see it both ways.

It was a funny thing: once you tell your story to others it becomes more like fiction and less like truth. A layer of performance is added to it, removing you further from the real thing.

She'd had a terrible time with his brothers' wives : seeing her with them was like watching someone pet a cat against its fur.

Evet,yaÅŸam bir aldatmaca. EÄŸer yeteri kadar uzun yaÅŸarsan, hiç bir ÅŸeyin ÅŸa??rt?c? olmad???n? öÄŸreniyorsun.

To be a real traveler you must be willing to give yourself over to the moment and take yourself out of the center of your universe

We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house. They told me it was a bank, and that the white men place their money there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back, with interest. We are Indians, and we have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by and by they return them, with interest, and our hearts feel good. Our way of giving is our bank. — Maquinna Nootka Chief

If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around

If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you... you won't be able to walk.

If you spend too much time focused on the dead or broken, you'll find death perched on your shoulder...

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...

The childhood years are the best years of your life… Whoever coined that was an unmitigated fuckwit, a bullshit artist supreme. Life gets better the older you grow, until you grow too old of course.

Creativity arises from our ability to see things from many different angles.

Let us remember that things are not what make us fulfilled. Experiences are.

Isak Dinesen went so far as to say, "There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

What is 45 minutes to an old goat like you?" - Vanda "I believe it is still 45 minutes." - Connor

Life is short. Ask God to give you perspective instead of believing the lies that your life isn't good enough.

I heard that the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.

He remains kind, but a feeling nags at me, staying with me long after I leave. And it's this: It doesn't matter what I did to him. He can choose to remain detached, untouched by me. Something I can't do back.

When someone tells you the story of their suffering, they are probably still suffering in some way. No one else gets to decide what that suffering means, or if it has any meaning at all. And we sure as hell don't get to tell someone that God never gives anybody more than they can handle or that God has a plan. We do not get to cut off someone's suffering at the pass by telling them it has some greater purpose.

When your ability to determine what is real is taken away by a drug, it's terrifying. But it's far worse when it's denied to you by other people.

We listen to the stories that people believe have shaped their lives. We listen to the stories people choose to tell, and the meaning they make of those stories.

When people tell their stories again and again, turning them over and over, they're trying to make or find meaning in them. That meaning is something they have to discover for themselves. As painful as the process might be, there is no circumnavigating it, either with the most thoughtful ideas you can offer or with the most hackneyed clichés. The meaning a person finds will almost never be the same one you can come up with. It will always be richer, more nuanced, more surprising.