Quotes About Perspective

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

Gratitude is the attitude. That's the thing.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this is where doctors often stumble--empathy requires being able to communicate all of this to the patient.

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.

Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke . . . but yeah, I mean it. What do you think?

An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.

when I'm sad over what I lost, I often find that things look better in the rearview mirror than they really were

It makes you realize how small you are, and no matter what you plan, God has a bigger idea, and you're not the one in charge.

Whatever age you are," her mother said tartly, "age is just a number, and numbers have no power over you, unless you allow them to. You can feel 'too old' at any age, if you let yourself. You're never too old or too young for anything, you're just the right age.

It's only a tragedy if we treat it that way," Jessie said firmly.

open your eyes for us Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's not too exciting

had some form of Asperger's, although there

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by.

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's a very good chance that I might be.

What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?

to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression.

Spring and Fall" …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression. …For some of us, the sadness running under the skin of things begins as a trickle and ends up a hemorrhage, staining everything.

It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain tattered charm; it was another thing entirely to be depressed in middle age, when you were supposed to have come to terms with life's failings, as well as your own.

Bucky B. Katt: I'm not closed minded you're just wrong

I'm positive I wouldn't consider having sex with Guy if I hadn't already had sex beforehand. I always knew I wanted my first time to be with someone I loved and who loved me, which it was . . . but shouldn't I want that for every time? I disagree with what Amy said about how once you go all the way, you can't go back to "everything but." But now that I have done it, it doesn't seem nearly as big a deal to do it again.

So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less?