Quotes About Perspective

Memories are often pruned and shaped with an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

Sometimes things are neither this nor that, neither good nor bad. Sometimes they just are what they are.

Here, we turn everything into art.

It's funny how things don't matter any more when it's too late.

I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was realistic. He cautioned me that it was not wise to write of reality.

O homem só dá valor ao homem depois que morre. Se os homens governam o mundo, ele nunca está bom para o povo viver, por que não deixar as mulheres governarem? As mulheres não fariam guerras, porque elas são as mães dos homens. Mas os homens são os pais dos homens, fazem guerras, e matam-se.

I have no beliefs," said her mother. "Only hopes.

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Not only is there no way to make everyone happy, it's nearly impossible to make anyone happy. And anyway, most people only think they want to be happy. Including me. There's something wildly freeing about knowing that.

I never needed eyes to see — never. I simply needed vision and belief.

A story too many times told is a dish with-out salt. ---Rose Wilder Lane

Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation from what was happening around the world.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can't fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.

Some people on this earth receive love, get married, and honeymoon in Cabo. Others do not. Some people read alone on the sofa and some people read together, in bed. That's life.

A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.

And when a girl likes talking about you more than talking to you, well, in my experience, that's the end.

we're too old to be young.

A photo essay (otherwise known as a fucking slide show)...

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.

And really, when you grow up, and get over yourself, when you fuck narcissism and leave the hashtags at the door, you see what really matters in life.

Constellations exist because someone saw them, pointed, and someone else said, Yes, I see it too.

I grew up with no religion and she had all religion. She celebrates everything and I celebrate nothing.