Quotes About Perspective

Maybe instead of worrying about Shelly's marriage, she should examine her own.

When you understand a prickly person's history, you develop compassion for them.

Ivy could have pointed out that their eldest sister rarely got to spend time with their parents, but Shelly knew that.

Forty-five might seem old to you now, but I promise you it isn't. I'm not yet half as old as my grandmother was when she passed away. I hope I still have a lot of living to do.

He was not yet old enough to be able to grade his own misfortunes: it is one of the maturer accomplishments.

In the convex driving-mirror she could see, dwindling rapidly, the patch of road where they had stood; and she wondered why it had never occurred to her before that you cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

Finally, many experts tell me that the best—some say only—way to teach one's husband to learn the ropes and appreciate the volume of work you do is often the technique that is least used: leave the damn house.

If you're in a constant state of Self-Righteous Angry Victim, you're fucked. It's over. You're not a victim. So knock it off.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Time will explain.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

The last few hours were certainly very painful, replied Anne: but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings. I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Evil to some is always good to others

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Facts are such horrid things!

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.