Quotes About Perspective

You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you left off. I don't blame you. It's your body and your brain-and your life, even though you weren't able to make much use of it. I don't have the right to take it away from you. Nobody does. Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?...

No, you don't understand because it isn't happening to you, and no one can understand but me. I don't blame you. You've got your job to do, and your Ph.D. to get, and-oh, yes don't tell me, I know you're in this largely out of love of humanity, but you've got your life to live and we don't happen to belong on the same level. I passed your floor on the way up, nad now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again. So let's just say good-bye here and now.

When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.

Who's to say my light is better than your darkness?

Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

I will never know. Whatever the truth is, I must not hate Rose

Who's to say that death is better than your darkness?

Who's to say death is better than your darkness?

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness?

Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say? . . .

Door's open!" she shouted. She was in her underwear, lying on the floor, arms outstretched and legs up against the couch. She tilted her head back and looked at me upside down. "Charlie, darling! Why are you standing on your head?

She brings me things to eat and she fixes my bed and she says I was a very brave man to let them do things to my hed. She says she woud never let them do things to her branes for all the tea in china. I tolld her it wasnt for tea in china. It was to make me smart.

Benim ?????m?n senin karanl???ndan daha iyi olduÄŸunu kim söyleyebilir.

It doesn't mean - she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

She said for a person who God gave so little to you did more than a lot of people with brains they never even used.

If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit. And Im glad I found out all about my family and me. It was like I never had a family til I remembird about them and saw them and now I know I had a family and I was a person just like evryone.

I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies.

If you ever reed this Miss Kinnian dont be sorry for me. Im glad I got a second chanse in life like you said to be smart because I lerned alot of things that I never even new were in this werld and Im grateful I saw it all even for a littel bit.

Qualquer um pode se sentir inteligente ao lado de um imbecil.

Talvez o medo e a náusea não fossem mais um oceano para me afogar, mas apenas uma piscina de água refletindo o passado ao lado do presente

It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.

It doesn't mean, she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.

Anyway I bet Im the first dumb person in the world who ever found out something importent for sience. I remember I did something but I dont remember what. So I gess its like I did it for all the dumb pepul like me.

Agora entendo que um dos motivos importantes para ir à universidade e obter uma educação é aprender que as coisas em que você acreditou a vida toda não são verdade, e nada é o que parece ser