Quotes About Perspective

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

Things in life are never just black or white…They are many shades in between, so before you make a snap judgement consider what's going on around you…everyone is fighting some battle of their own and it's not all about you.

"What's that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.

For a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old."

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. 

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

narrative is the principal way in which our species organizes its understanding of time.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

Everyone has some kind of philosophy, some general worldview, which to men of other views will seem mythological.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

Hermione looked far and far and George was a midge and a leaf was the size of a house and an acorn-cup would shelter herself...for...I am a tree planted by the river of water...I am in the word tree. I am tree exactly.

I mean how can anything one has suggested in Havre or Rouen, have anything to do with anything else of moment in Paris?

Considering his tuberculosis it isn't hard to understand why Nakamura Sensei was motivated to search for firsthand knowledge, but we may not feel the same burning motivation. We, after all, aren't about to die. Unfortunately, this way of thinking is delusional. We are going to die. We

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.