Quotes About Perspective

Books change the world, I think.

You can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

Her mother lived in a world of black and white, and Eva knew that neither of those colors existed, not really; it was all a spectrum of gray.

My point is that every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives.

the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

every parent wants what is best for his or her child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.

because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along. I

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child. But we are all guilty of seeing things through the lens of our own lives. We forget sometimes that it is your life to live.

And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

Sometimes, God's plans are different from ours, and it's impossible to know why,

When you're young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past." She turned to stare out the window. After a long pause, she spoke again, her voice quivering in a way Liv had never heard before. "And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

You see, when you look back on things later in life, it's sometimes easier to see the purpose. So perhaps for now, it's best to try your hardest to focus on what lies ahead. The future is still something that can be changed, isn't it?

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all. You know?

I know that now, in the world today, young people take freedom for granted. All the things you have, all of the freedoms you enjoy, they are things you were born with.

can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

Let them believe that the fairy tales were the fiction, and that everything else was real.

Remember that you control what you choose to believe in," I said. Anyone could look at our farm lives and see toil and squalor, or look at the same lives and see purpose, abundance, and joy. Same plot points, different story. "Very different things can be true simultaneously, and choosing the one with the better narrative is often extremely helpful.

This humble wish seemed impossible. It was so different from the life I was living, and no one in my circle had those things, or wanted them, or would admit it if they did. I thought I could acknowledge the ache and learn to live with it, the way you live with the pain that lingers long after you've broken a bone, the kind that foretells a shift in the weather.

The world is my canvas and my camera is the perfect tool to capture everything around me. I always make it a habit to carry my camera with me so I will never suffer the regret of wishing I had.

Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

If I think it's true, no matter why or how I think it's true, then it's true, and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Why did Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan begin remarking frequently during the 1980s and '90s that people were entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts? Because until then, it hadn't seemed like a serious problem in America.

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