Quotes About Perspective

Come on, I want a real answer. That's the answer of a priest. I want the answer of a scientist

The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.

I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never thought it would be this small, did you?

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Meanwhile, my dream for the future was that it wouldn't involve mass extinction and large-scale water shortages and cannibalism.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

We are always telling stories to ourselves, about ourselves...But we can control those stories...I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them

reckon it was some combination of these things, the feeling that I was separated from the rest of the people of earth by an invisible wall, like a fish in an aquarium.

If you could have dozens of lesser lives, didn't that add up to one big one?

I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them.

There's a lot of bad influences in Cleveland, I'm starting to think. It's a shithole, you know? I think if I'd been born in a nicer place I wouldn't be such a fuckup.

I can't tolerate cell phones," I say. "For health reasons." "Yech," he grunts. "Those things ruined the country. I don't know how, but they convinced the people that they should spend their whole lives inside a screen the size of a playing card. I'd take a jail cell over that bullshit any time.

We are always telling a story to ourselves, about ourselves," he'd say. Sometimes he would make a gesture that was almost like a touch, though he actually rarely made skin-to-skin contact. "But we can control those stories," he'd say. "I believe that! Events in our life have meaning because we choose to give it to them.

Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

ASSUME is to make an ASS of U and ME.

I gave my clothes away. How could I think about clothes when the poor people of Florida don't even have a place to live?

There's nothing like getting trapped in a magical nightmare world to make you reexamine your priorities.

Never kill yourself, son. You might miss something. Like the point.

Wake up! If you knew for certain that you had a terminal illness - if you had precious little time left to make use of your life and consider who you are, you'd not waste time on self-indulgence or fear, lethargy or ambition. Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.

Tragedy is very different for the warrior and for the fool.

You Don't need a reason to be happy. If you do that reason can be taken away.