Quotes About Perspective

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

Never complain about growing old, Because so many never get the chance

Never judge someone till you've walked a mile in their shoes, cause then you're a mile away and you've got their shoes.

Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.

Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Sometimes it takes a Stranger to Understand you

The grass is always greener where you water it.

What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

A book is a beautifully written troll

it only occurred to me much later that the summer I was fourteen I had saved a life--not the life of a stranger as I had imagined--but the life I had taken for granted and which, in the years to come, I would take for granted again.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

If you see a whole thing — it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn't make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

and that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.

In Windhoek Gottschalk once asked Wenstrup if he thought it made sense to try to plan one's life. Wenstrup didn't think so, at least as far as he was concerned. Plans ran the danger of being too rigid. They killed all spontaneity and led too quickly toward old age. He hardly thought about the future at all and had no idea what would become of him.

Schönheit haftet nicht den Dingen an, sondern liegt im Helldunkel, im Schattenspiel, das sich zwischen den Dingen entfaltet, sagt der Dichter Tanizaki Junichiro. Und ich denke, es ist tatsächlich so, dass die Dinge sich für uns jeweils anders abschatten. Erst in unserem Blick, der immer auch aus einer bestimmten Perspektive, einer Geneigtheit kommt, werden sie schön.

There is no one to laugh with about his cookies and milk, to gush about the fact that he is eighteen like I am eighteen only he seems much older.

He is patriotic but not sentimental so Mom and I think the placement is ironic but it stays because Dad sometimes feels like a minority in his own home.

I want to hug him, to hold him, but I also want to slap him until he can see that, objectively, his life is almost perfect. The world loves him; it takes him seriously; Harvard takes him seriously.

hating is a common thing which everyone feels easy than understanding..