Quotes About Perspective

In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, "This is land," and point, and "This is sky," and point, but the eyes can't discover the dividing line.

There were days when she'd open her eyes and be him for six hours in a row; she knew all his secrets and nothing he had done seemed wrong to her, she knew how it was, how things had been, she was there. There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty. But who finds happiness interesting?

How did it go from "Füst should apologize to the woman he beat up" to "Füst should apologize to his fiancée" to "Füst should apologize to us"?

Whenever they were together they couldn't let sixty of their minutes pass without asking each other what time it was; as if time was a volatile currency that they either possessed or did not possess, when in fact time was more of a fog that rose inexorably over all their words and deeds so that their were either forgotten or misremembered.

know the risk I run when I find fault with people more often than I look for something to appreciate. It's like having grit in your eye; you see less and less of the real person standing right in front of you and more and more of the grit in your eye.

Books. I am attracted and repelled; books are conversations that are not addressed to me and I want to sneak up and listen but I also want to be invited in. If I was invited in the conversation would not be what it was.

Lily's eye transformed places. She looked at structures and they turned inside out and offered her their desolate jigsaw patterns. Once

When she said that we'd say "thanks" and it might have sounded as if we were thanking her for seeing us that way but actually we were thanking her for giving us whatever goodness was in us.

It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over.

It was hard to keep a straight face, but Harriet didn't laugh. Everybody around her was living out a different story in which events had different causes and motivations according to how they were perceived.

I had to give her a C because she spoilt an otherwise thoughtful piece by suddenly concluding that the Church of England was Anne Boleyn's "fault." A Church is not the "fault" of anybody.

Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.

It is important to stress the ways that people are different from each other, because so much of the suffering that we experience in our relationships with other people is caused by the fact that we are blind to their point of view.

Anecdotes are funny when you tell them," said Teffi. "But when you live through them it's a tragedy. And my life is one big joke-- in other words, a tragedy.

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

An optimist is merely an ex-pessimist with his pockets full of money, his digestion in good condition, and his wife in the country.

One man's folly is another man's wife.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.

I am not important. If I take a break, no one dies. And this is A Good Thing.