Quotes About Perspective

Daddy said, "At some point you will come to accept your limitations." "Do you accept yours?" I asked, with challenge in my voice. "But of course, Ladybug. That's what marriage teaches you.

Well, somebody in your situation needs to look at life like a newborn baby. Pretend like you have never been in the world before and you're waiting for it to show you what's what. Keep your head in the right now.

Our daughter needs to know things, she needs to know how fortunate she is. When I was her age . . .' My mother cut him off. 'Stop it, Franklin. This is how progress works. You have it better than your daddy and I have it better than mine.

You can never know another person's mind;

Sometimes all you can do is laugh." And I did. At first, I was driven by an urge to be polite, to humor an old man, but something in my chest lubricated and I cackled like a crazy person the way you let loose when you suspect that God isn't laughing with you but laughing at you.

How strange! How ironic! Just because a man has been created on the Equator some mad people regard him as a slave, others as a god. Where lies the mean? Where the middle way?

Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.

Once again there was the feeling that the ordinary things before one's very eyes were becoming unordinary.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

los hombres se convierten muy a menudo en esclavos de lo inmediato.

hablas y piensas como yo. Te diga lo que

Los enamorados pueden volverse egoístas, encerrados en sí mismos, ajenos a lo que sucede a su alrededor.

You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love

a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

We all choose how to look at life. -- A Prologue to Love

Life is a comedy for the man who thinks, a tragedy for the man who feels.

He still gazed at me, but I was confused. "It is not new that men confuse material prosperity with blessedness, and fail to value spiritual prosperity.

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

The last suit we wear doesn't need any pockets.

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another.

When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.