Quotes About Perspective

Contrary to popular wisdom, growing older does not make you less conflicted. In fact, you become more and more conflicted by the second. You can see all sides of any given thing. It's all stupid bullshit and you want all of it, everything, and you also want none of it,

you're treating love and success as external rewards that bring happiness, when in fact love and success are side effects of happiness.

From a distance, the solid ground of marriage has a way of looking mundane and exotic at the same time.

It's like she looks at me and only sees what she wants to see. My father looks at me and sees only what he wants me to be.

Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

Be positive in all that you allow yourself to be, if you do not feel positive don't allow that self to be, instead transform into someone you want other people to be. Imagine you are like the you in heaven and heaven in others will come out of them to you.

You are my interest, you are my eyes, everything I say is for you, everything I see is through you.

I don't mind my age.

Xavier wasn't put on the earth to witness the bad htings like Jules and I were. He had been put here to notice lovely things, things that God had created and no one had any complaints about. Leaves turning red in the autumn. How when the tide goes out, the shells are left on the shore. I was put here - Jules and I were both put here - to see sadder things. We had to stand in the rain and explain why the world was a lovely place.

You don't have to have clarity," he said, "to take a clear position.

He said I was learning to talk about my life more objectively so that it felt like a part of my life and not a part of myself.

Don't get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder's container idea: Notice everything, but don't buy into it. Hold it.

Before you judge another remind yourself you don't know their life history to understand why they behave as they do!

There's always more to the story, Catriona," She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories.

Football means soccer, squash is soda, bonkers is nuts—I'm going to need an interpreter or something.

There is no difference between growing old and living.

I think women are excellent social critics.

Things are never as bad as they seem. —Miss Maudie, To Kill a Mockingbird

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. —Margaret Atwood

don't like that man. I must get to know him better. —Abraham Lincoln

didn't think it was super. Winnie

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. —Albus Dumbledore

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as much as you please. —Mark Twain

She said that my good qualities were my bad qualities -- this I have come to realize is true of everyone. On the one hand, I was game, eager and perfectly ready to see what was in front of me. On the other hand, I had no sense of direction or destiny.