Quotes About Perspective

I suppose the word "unbearable" is a lie by definition. Unless you kill yourself immediately after using it.

The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze.

Human love didn't eradicate God, but it put Him into His proper distant second place.

Live long enough and nothing is news. 'The News' is 'the new things.' That's fine, until a hundred years go by and you realise there are no new things, only deep structures and cycles that repeat themselves through different period details.

The more you read, the harder it is to condemn.

Nothing is the whole story. The self's curse – and the writer's.

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

TV," I said, "do you believe in God?" "I believe," he said, "in Walt Disney." "You too!" We had clicked.

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don't have it anymore

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

Lou Kitchenmaster, a retired teacher from Michigan, wrote an editorial in 2012 that puts the progressive position in perfect perspective: None of us would expect our major auto makers to build a high-quality product given damaged or defective materials; however, too many unfairly expect our public schools to accomplish such, regardless of the inherent condition of the "product" they receive. So he considers poor kids to be "damaged or defective materials

I always assumed everybody shared my love for overcast skies. It came as a shock to find out that some people prefer sunshine.

I don't know that I'm afraid of anything anymore. Once you experience war you can never be the same. You see the world differently.

The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life to his tale. But as to which part is truth and which small part is fiction, I will leave that for you to decide.

the face of God can be seen from a thousand different angles?

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.

3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115).