Quotes About Perspective

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

Life is like a reel life but real life is not reel life.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but either way…you've got to mow it.

we all tend to see what we are looking for.

SOMETIMES OUR WAY OF THINKING LIMITS WHAT WE CAN SEE.

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.

You think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

It is by universal misunderstanding that we agree with each other. If, by some misfortune, we understood each other, we would never agree.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

Art is not a sack race.

You can't reconstruct a story—you can't even know what the story is—if everyone is saying, "Mistakes were made." Who made them? Everybody made them and no one did, and it's history anyway, so let's forget about it. Every story is a history, however, and when there is no comprehensible story, there is no history.

As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

Al llevarme a casa, Harry me dijo —¿cómo podía no saberlo?—que Jackson Pollock se había rebanado la punta de su dedo meñique a los siete años. ¡Siete! Jesucristo. Ni siquiera mi dolor era original

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react