Quotes About Perspective

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.

The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. And we shine differently in the seasons of our lives.

I travel upon the heart line of past and present, weaving in the sun pollen of who I am today, wading in the rain puddles of having too much to say because I must always speak from four directions. It is where I have been. It is where I am going. It is where I move. It is where I am.

My life is a twisted rainbow.

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How can he want me the way I look in the morning?" It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

As I was sitting in my chair I knew the bottom wasn't there. Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

If you're enjoying your anxieties, then for goodness' sake do not go skipping!

Adults aren't generally struck with the urge to skip because their worries and burdens weigh them down and they forget that they can take themselves lightly.

When the people look like ants — pull, When the ants look like people — pray.

I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed in on Google Earth really fast.

You know you're a skydiver when your friends look at the sky and say, "look at all those clouds," and you say, "look at all those holes!"

At 13,000 feet nothing else matters.

You know you're a skydiver when you buy anything you calculate how many skydives it will cost.

Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn.

If you would like to spoil the day for a grouch, give him a smile.

A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee.

Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back towards the future.

The aging chose the years of their youth, yet the young, who were not even born then, would have to live in those years. There was a certain injustice in that - choosing the time the next generation would live in. As happens in all elections, actually.