Quotes About Perspective

The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

Everyone in the world should read this book... We should read it to learn about the world and what it means to be human.

a way of looking at the world that changed my life,

How can they be that poor, when our kingdom is so rich?

This is how it works, she thought. When the world becomes something new, it seems always to have been that way.

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines you priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

What do we know of ourselves except as through a prism, he wonders, the endless refractions of our mind turning back on itself like a dog chasing its own tail?

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

You know what's funny about death? I mean other than absolutely nothing at all? You'd think we could remember finding out we weren't immortal. Sometimes I see children sobbing airports and I think, "Aww. They've just been told.

about a year after that, I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And, you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

I thought you had to go to Iraq to get post traumatic stress disorder. And you do. But you can also just come on over to my house!

To make him important in one's life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.

The thing about having it all is, it should include having the ability to have it all. Maybe there are some people who know how to have it all. They're probably off in a group somewhere, laughing at those of us who have it all but don't know how to.

LetÂ''s say something happens, and from a certain slant maybe it'Â's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the funny slant, and now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm.

People adapt to you. Don't worry, you can't alter what they think of you to any great degree, and by the same token what they think of you can't alter you.

BOTH HANDS, ONE HEART, TWO MOODS, AND A HEAD

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable. What that really means, other than what it sounds like, is, let's say something happens and from a certain slant maybe it's tragic, even a little bit shocking. Then time passes and you go to the funny slant, and now that very same thing can no longer do you any harm.

I was a lucky girl–without the self-esteem to feel it, or the wherewithal to enjoy what there was to enjoy of it and then let go.

So it's not what you're given, it's how you take it.

I thought I was only seeing half the man But that was all there was to you You

One not only has to read between the lines, one has to fill him in altogether. Because he's not there. To make him important in one's life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.