Quotes About Perspective

You learn working in hospice that a person can, in fact, live too long.

Inever did become wise. Y'always think that when you get old, you're supposed to become wise. But here I am, fixin' to die, and I never did." Gloria's milky blue eyes widened and she raised her eyebrows. She laughed, just a little bit.

The world is not black and white. There is no black and white. There's only gray. You have to live in the gray, or you got no kindness in your heart. You gotta see the gray.

The young will no longer be advised by the old," she said to the hall porter. "That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter.

When you see a rich man's wife shaking her head over the thriftlessness of the poor because they do not save, pity the lady's ignorance; but do not irritate the poor by repeating her nonsense to them. —George Bernard Shaw The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism

The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.

Most of the time when people are wrong they try to hide it, reason it away, or simply try to ignore and forget it. If we saw the awfulness of sin from God's perspective it would make a difference in how we live.

Before you run to tell somebody what they are doing is wrong, consider how you learned about it in the first place.

Nothing in this world is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

That's all right." Abby picked up the towelette and wiped Roisin's face for her. "When it's a guy problem, we all speak the same language. So your boyfriend's a bird," she said when Roisin's cheeks were tear-free. "It is kind of creepy, but once he changed back, he looked totally Italian.

Time ain't nothing, but time. It's a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es tiempo. Es un verso sin rima, y todo depende de ti.»

I envied Lesley her unshakable optimism. She always looked on the bright side of things. If they Had a bright side.

Just so long as Charlotte doesn't know what was going on," said Lesley. "Don't worry, she went to her room in a fury just because I put down the word cardscissors. "Which as everyone knows are scissors for cutting cards," said Xemerius. "Essential in every household.

Yes, right, and the earth is flat," I replied. Stupidly, I said it out loud. Everyone else at the table looked at me, taken aback. "No, Gwenny, the earth is a globe," Caroline kindly told me. "I couldn't believe it at first, either. But apparently it flies through the universe at lightning speed.

Ich war so... erleichtert, dass du am Leben warst, dass ich mir eingeredet habe, für die Sache mit der Wunde würde es schon irgendeine logische Erklärung geben. Aber vorhin unter der Dusche, da ist mir plötzlich ein Licht aufgegangen." "Ah, das wird es sein. Ich habe noch nicht geduscht.

It's all a question of attitude.

Oh, you're so wrong, Henry," she said. "In fact, it's only just begun.

Charlotte faceva sempre quello che le dicevo. Tu invece no. E questo è molto scocciante. Però anche divertente. E dolce." Stavolta non fu solo il suo sguardo a farmi vacillare.

Decidme, pues, ¿cómo debería apreciar los encantos que un cielo para mí en un infierno transformaron?

That's the trouble. It's really hard to understand if you haven't experienced it.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.

It is not earth that judges heaven, but heaven that judges earth; so for me at least it was not earth that criticised elfland, but elfland that criticised the earth.

It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me, you don't even realize you've lost them, not until they come back to you.