Quotes About Perspective

She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.

But how you feel love and understand love are two different things.

One of the hurdles of adulthood is when holidays become measuring sticks againt which you always fall short. For children, Thanksgiving is about turkey and Christmas is about presents. Grown up, you learn that all holidays are about family and few can win there.

The vast generosity of women is a mysterious tunnel, and nobody knows where it leads. The writing on the walls spells out trick questions, and as a man, you must know that you cannot reason your way out.

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only.

But a man who is a father to a daughter is different from one who is a father to a son. One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.

But how you feel love and how you understand love are two different things

White people say, "It beats digging a ditch"; black people say, "It beats picking cotton.

If my childhood were a sandwich, there would be no meat hanging off the bread.

Life is full of things you never figured on.

You can never know another person's mind; this is one thing I have learned.

However much it hurts you, remember that I am the one it happened to. I am the one who was pregnant. I'm the one who isn't pregnant anymore. Whatever you feel, think about what I must feel. Just like you can say I don't know what it is like to be in prison, you don't know what it's like to go to a clinic and sign your name in a book.

Don't flip the script on semantics," Celestial said.

Much of life is time and circumstance, I see that now. Roy came into my life at the time when I needed a man like him. Would I have galloped into this love affair if I had never left Atlanta? I don't know. But how I feel love and understand love are two different things.

The chilly rationale of hindsight is what exposes the how and why of something that once seemed supernatural

The tree is untouched by whatever worries we humans fret over. I think about how it was here before I was born and it will be here after we're all gone. Maybe this should make me sad, but it doesn't.

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only. —CLAUDIA RANKINE

What I know is this: they didn't believe me. Twelve people and not one of them took me at my word.

Who is to blame, then, when everyone is innocent? And what is the value of blame at all?

you can never know another person's mind; this is one thing that I've learned.

Sometimes I envy the children today with all their tae kwon do, psychotherapy, and language immersion, but at the same time, I appreciate that back then being little meant you really didn't have to do anything but stay alive and have fun.

she is country, too. But let her tell it, she's a "southern woman,

a man who is a father to a daughter is different from one who is a father to a son. One is the left shoe and the other is the right. They are the same but not interchangeable.

I'm bringing this up because I knew that things like this happen to people, but by people , I didn't mean us.