Quotes About Perspective

How in the world had Bonnie managed to get Madeline's ex-husband out of bed at that time of morning to go to work in a homeless shelter? Nathan wouldn't get up before eight a.m. in the ten years they'd been together. Bonnie must give him organic blow jobs. "Abigail

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it

You can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely.

For someone who didn't want children, Erika had a wealth of parenting expertise she felt obliged to share. You

Things aren't that simple," said Tiffany. "They are if we want them to be," said Vid. He swept up the final shards of glass and stood. "You're getting yourself all worked up over nothing. You're finding catastrophes.

Frances made a tremendous effort not to comment on his height, as she knew from her six-foot friend Jen that tall people were well aware they were tall.

Why were cabdrivers so insistent on educating their passengers?

you have children you think your life has changed forever, and it's true, to an extent, but it's nothing compared to how your life changes after you lose a child.

Never spoil a good story with the facts.

Approaching human life from the neutral sea was beginning to make me more appreciative.

The size of the land can be humbling. It puts my human existence into perspective, not in the sense of feeling like a bug on the windshield of life, but more a feeling of belonging to something too big to comprehend. The times when I have a view of the broad vistas sometimes make me feel as big as the land. I love the size of the land, how it rolls on and on, untamed and for the most part untouched.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy -- at least until we have become as clever as they are.

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a regular person.