Quotes About Perspective

My buddy's just being an ass. It's his life's work." "Everyone needs a purpose.

But every once in a while, from out of the blue, someone reaches the quiet place where you spend your private time and changes the way you see yourself.

You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk.

They're just different. They experience the world in a different way. Normal is just what's average, it's not necessarily the only way of being, or living—

La tragedia, como el amor, hace que la gente se vuelva ciega.

She smiled a little. "You are a manipulator." "I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer

If you are going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you.

Her glass was not just half full. It was overflowing with rose-scented denial.

Okay, why couldn't he just be drinking right now? Still, bassinet jockeying one of these pooping machines had to be better than dodging bullets. Right? V glanced at the matched set of milk addicts. Fine, maybe the goo-goo, gaga/Glock assessment was more of a fifty-fifty.

I think people who survive need to get to an aha moment," she said quietly, "where the fog lifts and you realize there are things worth living for and goals worth pursuing. Even if they're different than what motivated you before.

reality wasn't interested in anybody's opinion.

My sex life is private, Butch. So are my…unconventional interests." "I hear ya. No one's biz but yours. One question, though." "What." "When the females tie you down, do they paint your toenails and shit? Or just do your makeup?" As V laughed in a loud crack, the cop said, "Wait…they tickle your pits with a feather, right?

Siempre me pongo del lado del monstruo.

Ah, but perspective is very much a long-term strategy. And so is being grateful for everything you have.

Algunas veces la única manera de saber lo lejos que has llegado es regresar al lugar de donde saliste.

gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Do you have any idea how many detectives get MRIs because they have persistent headaches and are convinced they have a brain tumor? But it's never that. And there's nothing wrong with my mind, is there.

The Chosen Layla was what had changed everything for him, recasting the Brotherhood from target to tolerable, from enemy to co-existable tenant in the world. In

Spending time with you is like watching paint dry." Lassiter's voice echoed up to the stalactites hanging from the Tomb's high ceiling. "Except without the home improvement—which is a tragedy, given how this place looks. Do you guys always go for the gloom and doom? You never hear of Pottery Barn?" -Lassiter to Tohr

Reality is like a coin. It has a front and a back, and you can only see one side at a time.

When you had no compass of your own, anyone's would do.

Sometimes, nothing made you feel older and more worn out than the happiness of others.

Perfection was relative, not any singular characteristic, or even a group of them, but rather how the composite fit together for the person who was regarding the whole.

He wasn't mad. Getting angry about the truth was just stupid. It was better to spend your time adapting to it. Far more logical, even if it made tears come to your eyes.