Quotes About Perspective

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

This may sound funny but somewhere in the back of my mind I thought the world would stop for my first day of JH. The day proved me wrong and I've grown to realize that nothing will be quite as I dreamed them up.

When I behold the ocean, I know that the world isn't just the grind of small tasks and small thoughts.

I think I'd like to be beautiful and heartless for a while, just to see what it's like.

Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy.

All three sons believed they had the right ring, but there was no proof they were right. But all three rings were precious and beautiful, because they came from the father, and the father loved all three sons.

I have always thought that if something dreadful happened, I would be very brave, but when someone has a needle next to your eye, it's different.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

There were days Gabriel wondered why they didn't just hand everything over to women and be done with it.

That's not fair." "It's not," he agreed. But it's the truth. Never assume that the two will ride side by side.

Every people had a story of how the world had come about, the boss said, and every one was as valid as the next and just about as true.

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.

When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.

This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.

People don't tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.

The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't there anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.

Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want." —ABRAHAM L. FEINBERG

La mera verdad es que la verdad no existe, todo depende del punto de vista.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist; it all depends on a person's point of view.

Lea--when a man climbs a glass mountain, it's not usually for the damn golden apple. It's for the person he gives the apple to.

All those stories need different endings——which is possible because it's my life and I do have the privelege of being able to write the story.

It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.