Quotes About Perspective

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman moving into a subway entrance in Harlem. Turn me into something else, writers of the world. Make me Muslim, heretic, hermaphrodite. Put me into a crusader's armor, a cardinal's vestments. Let me feel the pygmy's heartbeat, the queen's breast, the torturer's pleasure, the Nile's taste, or the nomad's thirst. Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

Her view of men was one-dimensional, but not inaccurate: men were prisoners of their genitalia and women were the keepers of the keys to paradise.

Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers

In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my hands on a sunlit ice floe than try to coax fire from the books they carve from glaciers.

That's what a good book does-it puts readers on their knees. It makes you want to believe in a world you just read about-the one that will make you feel different about the world you thought you lived in, the world that will never be the same.

It both surprised and angered me that {they} had reached a consensus of agreement against me. The way I looked at the world, enemies criticized and friends affirmed.

He lived out his whole life as an anthem to the pleasures of a bad mood.

She saw the world through a dazzling prism of authentic imagination.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

Gonzaga was the kind of place you'd not even think about loving until you'd left it for a couple of years.

No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons.

Upstaged by a schizophrenic, Dallas said. The story of my life.

I never seemed to learn from joy; I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness.

thought you didn't believe in God," I said to Savannah as we moved slowly past the Coast Guard base at the end of the Charleston peninsula. "I don't," Savannah answered, "but I believe in Luke and he believes in God and I always believe in God when I truly need him." "Situational faith," I said.

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story'.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

Until you change the way that you look at things,Those things will never change.

You'll either think yourself worse than someone else, or better than someone else. Neither of these is good. Stop comparing. - Rick Warren

Humility nay be defined as a modest and realistic view of one's own importance. Someone once said that humility doesn't mean thinking less of yourself. It just means thinking of yourself less. In other words, a genuinely humble person doesn't say, I'm worthless, but instead, says, I'm no more important than anyone else- and no less important, either

Every moment is like a wheel with a hundred spokes in it. We ride always at the hub of the wheel and go forward as it turns. We ignore the array of other moments constantly turning around us. We are surrounded by doorways; we never open them.

Research the imagination. It was as obsolete as the appendix in most adults, except for those in whom, like the appendix, it became inflamed for no reason.

Most people, and certainly all members of Western civilization, are [...] born into a world which differs radically from that of their ancestors, with the result that most of human history is a closed book to them.