Quotes About Perspective

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

Let's go eat turkey before I beat the crap put of my cousin." The way he said it, Vlad wasn't sure if Henry wanted to eat instead of beating Joss to a pulp, or if he just didn't want to do it on an empty stomach.

no, i don't, i told him. i'm not sure that it matters what you care about. maybe it's the caring itself that matters.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

Furthermore, once we have a category, we often stop looking outside of the categories for meaning, as our formal system of carrots and sticks exists solely within the categories

Postmodernists have been at the leading edge of promoting the view that reality is socially constructed.

we didn't always assume that just doing stuff that someone else is paying you for is of value

The wisdom of elders is ancient and necessary in human history, and there is deep value in being skeptical of the wisdom of elders, when that wisdom is out of place, or of the wrong time.

When walking into a system that is new to us, it can be more effective to be naïve to what others have thought, at least at first. If you are already certain of what the solution set of probabilities looks like, you lose some of what it is to be human... You lose access to truth, because the only way you will see what is true is if it is already a match for what you thought beforehand. This is a path that therefore cannot grow your understanding.

Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?

tried to make her understand that she couldn't control other people, only her own reaction to them.

he didn't believe much in funerals—or in massive monuments to the dead, caskets worth thousands and thousands of dollars or any other such thing.

All paths lead to God, and it doesn't matter if you call him Jehovah, Allah, Buddha, or even if you believe that he is a she.

what's real doesn't always matter. What people think has been done to them can be just as serious as what really happened.

The world is not always ours to understand....

if we feel guilt, if we believe it in our own minds, that's what's true to us.

Many of us learn to construct a clear and precise vision of what we want, but we're never taught how to enjoy what we actually have. There will always be more victories to strive for, more strangers to charm, more images to collect and pin to our vision boards. It's hard to want what we have; it's far easier to want everything in the world.

Yet this chirpy insistence on positivity has a strange way of enhancing the dread and anxiety and melancholy that lie just beneath the surface of things.

When everything is bent into a jolly shape, everything feels more mournful than it should.

It takes work to shift your focus from the smudges on the window to the view outside.

And maybe when he died, he didn't think, "Is this all I get?" the way we, the narrow-minded living, might imagine, in the face of such a premature death. Maybe he thought, "I lived a rich life. I embraced what I was given, and it was incredible.

The past is reduced to a slide show. The future is a YouTube video that won't load.

Spending more money ensures greater happiness. This is the confused thinking of the duped consumer.

Many of us learn to construct a clear and precise vision of what we want, but we're never taught how to enjoy what we actually have.