Quotes About Perspective

Para odiar algo, primero debes amarlo.

If you weren't going to tell me, why did you bring me down here? So I could watch you die? No, sweetie. Just the opposite. He rolled his head to face her. I asked you to come so I could watch you live.

Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness you wouldn't otherwise get. People come, people go—they'll 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 story 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.

Not everything, he said. Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This - he said motioning - is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.

Winston Churchill once described worry as a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind that, if encouraged, cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Everyone's entitled to a bad day.

Because we always bring ourselves with us wherever we go. It's one of the universal truths of life.

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

She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: Gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs.

Some might dispute the facts, but memories aren't always about facts.

Even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good—and bad—to offer.

that time had a funny way of dimming the edges of reality until only something blurry remained

The disappointments she'd experienced hadn't hardened into either anger or bitterness, but rather acceptance that life seldom turns out the way that one imagines it will.

while there's a lot that I don't know about the world, I do know that kids have a funny way of helping you keep things in perspective.

Keep in mind that as hard as things are, it is possible to find things to enjoy and to be grateful for the opportunities that life presents.

Sentada na cozinha, Denise pensava que a vida era como o estrume. Quando usado no jardim, servia de fertilizante. Eficaz e barato, alimentava o solo e ajudava o jardim a tornar-se tão bonito quanto podia ser. Mas fora dele, numa pastagem por exemplo, e quando pisado inadvertidamente, era uma coisa repugnante.

When podcasts are in charge there will be no wars, just ears. That will probably be our motto, but in Latin. In our podcastian future, we'll comprehend that each story has another angle, every case a contradictory piece of evidence.

The equality of men and women is not possible because both are different. A mountain is a mountain, and a river is a river.

The best view is always from the mountain you've climbed.

Mountains are like the great equalizer. It doesn't matter who anyone is or what they do.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

When you can stand over the clouds and watch them roll through the mountains below you, it shifts absolutely everything in your brain.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.