Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

I knew we weren't rich, but I didn't feel like I was missing anything.

There's no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.

Street people use cardboard all the time, and bum alleys are just shanties or lean-tos, though. They're nothing like my house! Mine is deluxe! It's a big, thick, super sturdy refrigerator box that I found at an appliance store!

Today I've been considering how life's journey is not about the distance we move our feet, but how we are moved in our heart.

Quizás todo se trata de la forma en que lo miras. Tal vez hubo cosas que yo veía como feas y otras personas encontraban hermosas.

Dont't sum up a person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.

I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.

I realized that Garrett was right about one thing — I had flipped.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

When you are old you can look back and see yourself when you are young. It is almost like looking down from heaven. And you see yourself as a young woman, just a big girl really, half awake to the world. You see yourself happy, holding in your arms a good, decent, gentle, beloved young man with the blood keen in his veins, who before long is going to disappear, just disappear, into a storm of hate and flying metal and fire. And you just don't know it.

I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.

The world doesn't stop because you are in love or in mourning or in need of time to think. And so when I have thought I was in my story or in charge of it, I really have only been on the edge of it.

All the world, as a matter of fact, is a mosaic of little places invisible to the powers that be. And in the eyes of the powers that be all these invisible places do not add up to a visible place. They add up to words and numbers.

He was a humorous, good-natured man, maybe because he hoped for little and expected less and took his satisfactions where he found them.

It's sad that we live in a society that has the refrain 'thank God it's Friday, that means you despise 5/7ths of your life.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

We've lost our ability to see anything sacred or unique in what it means to be human. And we've lost our capacity to believe in anything that we can't measure with our tools. As

The thing was over. He himself was back home in bed again and safe. God knows why or how but he had come through one more. No telling what might happen the next time but why worry about that? This one was over and nothing had happened at all. Why did they make such a fuss?

One third of the history is based on what I have experienced myself, about one third on the experience of a very good friend whose drinking career I followed very closely, and the other third is pure invention.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself; about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.

Do not misunderstand. There is a nuclear problem, especially in the form of nuclear proliferation. There are environmental problems. And every society has economic problems. But there is a difference between a problem and panic.