Quotes About Perspective

nothing exciting ever happens, so you stop thinking it's going to. and then something does happen, and you miss it. completely.

I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present.

I can't go to my daughter and in any kind of a motherly way say, stop loving your husband so much.' 'We are not talking about love, dear; we are talking about possession.

for the days of age are not only much shorter than those in youth, but they rush away from you at a frightening rate. Take a day: a day in youth is an experience, and the last hour is as far away as a child's Christmas; a day in age is but a dim memory in a week that is already gone. At

whatever their denomination, the dead were the dead and were all the same to John, or at least they had been up to this last month or so. Before that, he had thrown the dirt onto them with the comment, and this to himself, that 'such was life' or, when feeling very talkative inside, he might add, 'When their number's called, even the deaf hear.' But this was before he had witnessed the accident at the crossroads.

Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times?

You're going to live. That's not to say you're going to be happy for a while, but it beats the alternative.

It was often said that the clothes made the man. He was now inclined to believe, rather, that one saw what one expected to see.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.

In the Sapient tongue he said softly, 'Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?' 'Is it?' Sapphique replied in the same language, his green eyes as he looked up lit by deep points of flame. 'To you, perhaps. Not to its Prisoners. Every prison is a universe for its inmates. And think, Jared Sapiens. Might not the Realm also be tiny, swinging from the watchchain of some being in a world even vaster?

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

Only the man who knows freedom can define his prison.

What if everything that has occurred in your life could be defined as having been absolutely perfect?

It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.

You can't think about how much you have left to do because that's just one thought, one sad thought, that'll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you've got to think about how much you've already done.

You watch pro ball and those guys spend so much time with their hands on each other's rear ends, you'd think they were feeling for diamonds or something.

psychological technique called reframing: taking a concept and relabelling it so as to alter its meaning.

Every life is a piece of art put together with all means available.

As one of my sons always says, "normal" is just a setting on a washing machine.)

I was beginning to see that it didn't matter at all if I knew what was wrong with a client. The art of therapy is getting the client to see it.

Over the next twenty years, other Indigenous patients of mine had similar animal spirit dreams—markedly different from the dreams of white people.)

sometimes grandparents who are warm and kind may have been far less so when they were parents. People will often mellow in old age.

someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.