Quotes About Perspective

We arrive in the middle of the movie and we leave in the middle of the movie.

while a deluded president can be replaced at the next election, one cannot replace a deluded population so easily.

If there isn't any solution, it's not a problem. It's a situation.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

It's not rocket surgery!

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.

You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

libidinous , adj . I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't ever realize you're on the floor.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

And I find myself saying, "It wasn't really about her." And finding it's true. What do you mean?" Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

With all due respect, if you're forty-three, then I'm a fetus.

When is a night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply realize that you have to? When the club closes or when you everyone leaves? It's over when you decide it's over, she says. When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky.

because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

If other people see you differently, you'll end up seeing them differently, too.

you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up because no one could think of anything else good to say to a person who'd just been shit upon?

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

When someone breaks up with you, their beauty-- which you took such satisfaction in-- suddenly becomes unfair.