Quotes About Perspective

If I remember correctly, you've never learned to read, have you?" He shrugged. "What for? I can count and figure as well as any man. My father said that teaching us to read made no more sense than teaching a dog to walk on his hind legs: amusing, but hardly worth the effort.

Maybe," said Thane, "we aren't as clubfooted as you are.

The universe wasn't ideal, but it was hardly a prison. After all, you had to exist somewhere, it might as well be here.

Do not become so attached to any one belief that you cannot see past it to another possibility.

No one thinks of himself as a villain and few make decisions they think are wrong.

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. …

Understanding begets empathy and compassion for even the meanest beggar.

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expectations of what could be or what should be are the most common sources of our discontent. Expectations lead to disappointment, and disappointment leads to anger and resentment.

But I remember when I read The Way of Kings, there were two things that struck me, like from a technical standpoint—it felt like you tackled a fantasy world almost as if you were writing science fiction.

Too often we don't appreciate the value of something until it has slipped our grasp.

In short, if one is entitled to everything, then one is thankful for nothing.

An aha experienced decades ago by one of us is relevant to this point. Halfway through a grueling clinical internship, CP [Christopher Peterson] complained to his supervisor, "No one [meaning the patients] ever says thank you for anything I try to do." The response from the experienced psychiatrist stopped CP mid-whine: "If they [the patients] could say thank you, how many of them do you think would be in a psychiatric hospital?

There is no time for grief; there never is.

How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.

Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.

When I look at my life, there has been far more pain than joy.

No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know we're mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

That is the difference between you and me. You had only one story to tell.' She stops and grins once more. 'I have millions.

On my eighth birthday I asked my grandfather how big the world was. When you are small, he said, it is huge. But when you are a master of nature, it is like a ball you can hold in your hand.

Life was like that, Alison thought, the world one day a dark and dreary place, the next day bright and full of promise.

No digas eso. Ni siquiera lo pienses. -Es la verdad. -Muchas cosas tristes son verdad -Sentenció...

The expression the impatience of youth is silly. The longer I live, the more impatient I become.

You don't always choose the path you walk in life, but, you always choose how you walk that path.