Quotes About Perspective

Discovering everyone has a hidden story, a reason for their behavior.

Her enthusiasm, her optimism, her hope? They were all so far from where he was.

This is all sorts of fucked up." "I know, baby. I know. But the best kind of fucked up.

Yet here they were, carrying groceries, holding children's hands, turning their collars up against the wind. As if their moments of truth—the decisions by which they would be judged and would judge themselves—hadn't already come and passed.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

But then I remind myself that life is really just about one moment at a time. To not think about two years from now, but to think about right now. Two years from now will figure itself out.

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.

My delusionary hell does not agree with yours.

Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because of you.

She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.

He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.

There's no point discussing it given that she's blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me. In spite of how she's clung to me over the years my point of view doesn't interest her, and this gulf between us has taught me what solitude really means.

Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer's work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself.

We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.

Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. They

And so the eight months are put behind them, quickly shed, quickly forgotten, like clothes worn for a special occasion, or for a season that has passed, suddenly cumbersome, irrelevant to their lives.

We were stating facts and at the same time arguing, an argument whose depths only he and I could fully comprehend.

Credo che ciò che può cambiare la vita esista sempre al di fuori di noi.

The fact that the yellow chintz armchair in the living room clashed with the blue-and-maroon Turkish carpet no longer bothered her.