Quotes About Perspective

People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.

Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.

No matter where it is in the sky... No matter where you are in the world... the moon is never bigger than your thumb. -John

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Distance can ruin even the best of intentions. But I suppose it depends on how you look at it. Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get. People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past.

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.

Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on? Landon: Right now, you're straddling the state line. Jamie: OK... Landon: You're in two places at once.

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

As hard as it was, as terrible and unfair as the way things turned out, i wouldn't have traded the few days i spent with him for anything

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

I think that the point is that people rarely understand that nothing is ever exactly what you think it will be.

Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things. They wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference Adrienne thought, was that most young people seemed to thing that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed that they lay in the past.

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing

People in pain don't always see things as clearly as they should