Quotes About Perspective

Polly había llorado tanto que se sentía deshidratada. El llanto juvenil es una cosa y el llanto adulto otra muy distinta. Las lágrimas de la juventud son limpiadoras, como las siestas o las duchas tonificantes. Una buena llorera hace que el joven que sufre sienta que se ha conseguido algo. Las lágrimas de la edad adulta dejan a la víctima seca y agotada. Dejan los ojos escocidos. Dejan a su paso un dolor bajo las costillas y en la frente.

It's weird how we do that, you know, just fill in the blanks with our own answer key. -- I think we create our own reality, our own truths. If we believe it to be so, then it is so.

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't real," said Penn. "Made up is the most powerful real there is.

If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind and that will help you worry less too.

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

It's your story, sweetheart. Not just your story to pass on. Your story to make up as well. Over time, stories change; they shift; they become something new but with elements of the original and elements of what's to come.

I mean, if we could have everything, sure. If we can have it all, yeah, I wish them easy, successful, fun-filled lives, crowned with good friends, attentive lovers, heaps of money, intellectual stimulation, and good views out the window. I wish them eternal beauty, international travel, and smart things to watch on TV. But if I can't have everything, if I only get a few, I'm not sure easy makes my wish list.

I just feel a little bit sad. Sad isn't bleeding. Sad is okay

Just because it's made up, doesn't mean it isn't

You're too old to be open-minded and tolerant," said Rosie. "I'm too old not to be.

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles." "You think?" "All the happy with none of the finality. All the happy with room enough to grow. What could be better than that?" "For a while," said Rosie. "A while's a long time," said Penn.

Do you realize, Rosie said to her mother, that I'm the one who's suppose to be calming you down about all of this. Not the other way around? I'm the one who's suppose to be talking you off the ledge. You're suppose to be panicking and dragging him off to church or something. So few Jews at church these days, said Carmelo. You're to old to be open-minded and tolerant, said Rosie. I'm too old not to be. She sucked coolly on her cigarette again, then waved at Rosie to punctuate her point.

I know this book will be controversial, but honestly? I keep forgetting why.

If you give all your worry to one thing, soon you'll realize that's way too much and worry about it less, and you'll feel more in control of it for keeping it at the front of your mind, and that will help you worry less

I don't mean you inspire people with how brave you are or any bullshit like that. I mean you are mindful, and mindful is contagious. You have perspective, so the people around you seek some too. Your effort is apparent, which reminds people of its virtue and necessity.

Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves.

It never occurred to me that others had done this before me.

My theory is that a strong healthy man isn't likely to be creative. It is illness and pain that encourages him to live another life.

Empathy connects us to another person's experience without judgment.

Although we have had significant losses, we did not lose our most important things: our health, our children, and those we love.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life.

Moving forward requires us to reframe our basic assumptions about life. Moving forward" does not mean that we heal in a linear, sequential way.

I get a kick out of people who talk like it only happened to them," says lawyer Denis Kelly. "I wonder, 'Didn't you notice that everybody else is going through it?

A wide-angle view of sails sparkling white against a cobalt sky as light dances, silver on the water. Like art, it soothes the edge, allowing you to see something simple from a different perspective.