Quotes About Perspective

I was brought up to believe that everyone brave is forgiven, but in wartime courage is cheap and clemency out of season.

If you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness?

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it. For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it.

Lawrence frowned. "I don't get you," he said. "If you understood how serious your situation is, I don't think you'd smile." I shrugged. "If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.

The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is. You

Yu only be livin one life, darlin. Don't matter yu don't uh-preshie-ate part of it, cos it don't stop bein part of yu.

a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. . . We must see all scars as beauty... Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you... You must hear them the way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.

occurred to him that no one who hadn't been in battle could know what things were worth.

But the door …' Tom grinned. 'Was only ever in your mind.

I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.

Ä°f you cannot read the beautiful things that have happened in someone's life, why should you care about their sadness? That is why people do not like us refugees. It is because they only know the tragic parts of our life, so they think we are tragic people.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

It is good to live like this. Once you are ready to die, you do not suffer so badly from the horror.

The idea that Sophie could die had always been there, ever since the first diagnosis, and yet it seemed like a bad place on a map, an Ivory Coast, somewhere not urgently frightening because fear itself kept you away from the place. You thought of it as somewhere braver people went, or at least as somewhere you'd have plenty of time to pack your bags for.

You could only be sad if you let yourself join the dots, if you allowed the scatter of moments in their totality to have some kind of a downward trend that you might be dumb enough to extrapolate.

You will laugh at me-silly village girl-for staring at an ice cube like this. You will laugh, but this was the first time I had seen water made solid. It was beautiful-because if this could be done, then perhaps it could be done to everything else that was always escaping and running away and vanishing into sand or mist.

You are not bad people. You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future.

Well, we want such different things from men. You earnestly want someone who will help you reform society." Mary smiled. "Whereas you . . . ?" ". . . just want a tall man and a stiff drink. You could even swap the adjectives." Mary

If one kept the great yellow mounds of smashed brick in the corner of one's eye, then the mind understood them as the contours of nature and forgot its trick of making one unhappy.

Todo mundo tem uma opinião, não é mesmo? Talvez seja isso o que está errado com este país.

television that

One could always imagine that one's life, though smoldering in parts, might be undamaged in the west.

Life is full of surprises and exciting moments and sometimes we simply overlook them. We are so busy doing things.

You have to see everyone in relationship to you. Just because you understand the shit in someone else's life doesn't mean you don't stand up for your own.