Quotes About Perspective

An active imagination is a wonderful thing. But it can also be a burden, if you focus too much on the dark side of the street.

Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.

Don't even become a cynic. Anything but that!

The Voice finally had something constructive to say and not just more fortune-cookie crap.

Did you ever hear the story of the man who walks past the mental hospital?" he said. "He can hear all the patients inside shouting, 'Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!,' but the fence is too high for him to see what is going on. Then he spots a knothole in one of the planks. He looks through it, and bam—a stick pokes him in the eye, and he hears the inmates all shouting, 'Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!

I always used to hear Mom say Grandma Dotty was a big pack rat. And to be honest, I never really thought about what that meant. I just thought:

The perfect killer, I believe, understands clearly that life is meaningless, absurd, without absolute value. As long as the criminal operates from this perspective, he can't be tripped up by his own mind, and he can't be caught.

Confessions made under torture can't be taken seriously. They're half-truths mixed with what the tortured person thinks the torturer wants to hear.

Can we ever really judge behavior simply by the behavior itself.

Maybe my goals were too long-term. Maybe I should figure out a way to be happy, not for a lifetime, but for an hour or two.

Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs?

No lo entiendes, Alex? No, creo que no lo entiendes. —¿Qué es lo que no entiendo, Jezzie? Dímelo de una vez. —Siempre estás buscando la parte buena de la gente. Pero no existe.

Come see-us, in our Pri-us. Wouldn't want to be-us, in our Pri-us.

How about you, Rafe?" she asked when Georgia finally took a breath. "What do you think of middle school so far?" "Well," I said, "it's not as bad as I thought it was going to

Luna said, "Sometimes I

Common sense is always more important than money or even a decent education. The problem is that you can't teach common sense.

Isn't it funny how just changing your location changes your perspective?

Martha mouthed my hand. I assured her that I was on it, and quickly dressed in jeans and sweatshirt to take my good dog for a walk. I remembered something told to me by a stranger on a train. She was holding her baby, and she jerked on her dog's leash to pull it under the seat. She saw me looking at her, I guess with judgment in my eyes. She said, "Before you have a baby, your dog is your baby. When you have a baby, your dog is a dog." I

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Book Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done.

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

I really unfortunately don't have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people's movies and I think that's the way to do it.