Quotes About Perspective

The most boring thing in the entire world, Brandy says, is nudity. The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty.

What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize. My point being, Brandy says, is you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. You're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. It's all out of your hands, Brandy says.

Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?

I want to tell them, stay in the cage. There are bet­ter things than free­dom. There are worse things than liv­ing a long bored life in some stranger's house and then dy­ing and go­ing to ca­nary heav­en.

Marla doesn't have testicular cancer. Marla doesn't have tuberculosis. She isn't dying. Okay in that brain brain-food philosophy way, we're all dying, but Marla isn't dying the way Chloe was dying.

you can make mean anything.

You get a glass tank, put it where the TV used to be, and all you get is a lizard—something so stupid that every time the maid moves a rock the lizard thinks it's been relocated miles away.

That's what I tell peo­ple. My of­fi­cial ver­sion of the truth.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

This is how we must look to God.

This is better than real life.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it.

statues of saints in somebody else's religion. To me they're just rock shaped into glorified nobodies.

It does not mat­ter. The joke is we all have the same punch line.

Really, there is no wrong. Not in our own minds. Our own reality. You can never set off to do the wrong thing. You can never say the wrong thing. In your own mind, you are always right. Every action you take—what you do or say or how you choose to appear—is automatically right the moment you act.

The sun's outside the bathroom window, trying to show us we're all being stupid. All you have to do is look around.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

What if all of our anger and fear is unwarranted? What if world events are unfolding in perfect order to deliver us to a distant joy we can't conceive of at this time?

If you were my student, I'd tell you to shift as needed between the three POVs. Not constantly, but as appropriate to control authority, intimacy, and pace.

Ev­ery­thing they be­lieved in turned out to be wrong.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The