Quotes About Perspective

There's an old Jewish saying: An enemy is someone whose story you do not know. (22)

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

Time heals all wounds or Time wounds all heels. Take your pick... oh, life's small choices.

On the way home from school, we stop off for a slice of pizza -- Phoebe's treat. She says there's an upside to what they did to me today. I've marked my place in the annals of school history. She says, "They'll never get that bloodstain out.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.

I don't really think our greatest memories are always great while they're happening.

Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.

Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this.

Sometimes the things you search far and wide for are right under your nose.

I don't know if anybody thinks of themselves as bad. We all have excuses.

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it.

There you go: Someone who puts «positive thinking» and «shit» in the same concept can inspire some serious eye-rolling if you're the type who works at keeping your thought-life healthy.

There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world.

World is all backward… It's like…we're through the looking glass. Good is bad, bad is good. Black is white, white is black. People base their lives on convenient recollections and are considered sane. People who look too hard for truth are considered crazy.

There is truth. There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth.

What a lot of fun you could have... if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!

What a lot of fun you could have, Minty discovered, if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!

Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just something in your mind, and you can change your mind.

There is a French expression: "Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner." To understand all is to forgive all.

For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life.

read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.