Quotes About Perspective

Did not pleasure depend on an architecture of perspective—on contrast and delay, withholding and loss? Did not true enjoyment rely on facing the future?

Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill

What does it feel like to get shot?" "I don't recommend it," said Nellie in a controlled voice. "Chocolate is definitely better.

Gordon Lewis

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

It's not what happens to people on the page; it's about what happens to a reader in his heart and mind.

He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel. Now that I am a bigger kid, I see the value--belatedly--added. Yet I also see the loss of life in the protecting, first of all, of oneself. Better to give oneself away. Dead f*ck the dog and so on.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

life consists of an effort to get the maps in our heads to conform to the ground on which we walk.

The stories of our lives, far from being fixed narratives, are under constant revision. The slender threads of causality are rewoven and reinterpreted as we attempt to explain to ourselves and others how we became the people we are.

everything in life is a good news/bad news story.

As much as we try, we do not control how we feel or what we think.

Like most people who knew themselves to be naturally favored with intelligence, his natural ego had led him unconsciously to doubt that there was much, if any, range of intellect beyond his own. But he forced himself to consider now the possibility that there might be as large a range above him as he knew to be below him—and

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage amongst his books. For to you Kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned by the flicking of a finger … LESSONS: Anonymous

they're blinded by the limited focus of their attitudes toward time and history. They only look as far as their own lifetime. No, they don't even look that far. They only look at how things are for their own generation.

I grew up in a funny way.

Death and horror are always near us. The challenge is to get on with our lives and be happy when we can always see them out of the corner of our eye, blurred, but still recognisable in the background.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

I am now old enough to no longer have a fear of dying young.

With each passing year, the body turns more prison than shelter.