Quotes About Perspective

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Every day is a careful balance fought between the despondency that threatens to swamp me and the incredible joy of living.

As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West.

If you want to know about Africa, read our literature -- and not just "Things Fall Apart," because that would be like saying, "I've read 'Gone with the Wind' and so I know everything about America."

In a world of infinite choice, not context content is king.

In a world of infinite choice, context—not content—is king.

El dolor de la vida supera a la alegría hasta tal punto que la alegría deja de existir.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.

Great coaches are necessary to help you think through whether you should think what you think you should think.

It was said that a person was only as big as the smallest thing that annoyed them...

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Philosophical systems have a habit of collapsing under the scrutiny of the next malcontent to come along.

I'm not running away. But this is one corner of one country on one continent on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond, and there is so much, so much, to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I'm not running away from things, I am running to them. Before they flare and fade forever.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive .

Our stories are the tellers of us.

You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future