Quotes About Perspective

i can't help thinking that 'getting a life' is something only a complete idiot could believe. like you can just drive to a store and get a life. see it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, 'wow, i look much happier - i think this is the life i need to get!' take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. if getting a life was that easy, we'd be one blissed-out race.

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

I think they would like the songs better if I left out the names, or changed the pronouns.

I'm insane. But I tell them this. I tell them to consider blessings. The thing about blessings is that they aren't just delivered to you. There is some mystery to their appearance, but once they're in your reach, you have to do something for them.

What do I know about love? Not much - that's the safe answer.

who the hell wants to be the one to tell a kid that santa claus isn't real. it's the truth, right? but you're still a jerk for saying it.

I had never really thought of marriages as things that involved liking. I had just assumed this man-woman arrangement was yet another adult quirk, like flossing.

It's my way of telling her that even though I haven't experienced so many things, I have managed to have a life.

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time.

You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don't tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can't get it off.

Did I love her then? Yes, in a genuine way. But I knew it wasn't everlasting, and that was okay. We had the time that we had, and we would be together for the rest of it.

Terwijl Vics ouders het niet konden laten hem te zien zoals hij vroeger was, en veel vrienden en ook vreemden iemand zagen die hij niet meer wilde zijn, zag Dawn alleen hem. Misschien was het beeld wazig, maar Dawn zag alles heel helder. Zij zag duidelijk en ondubbelzinnig een persoon.

So much happiness can only make me sad.

We thought there was a wall around our story. But what if there were windows?

We know: An almost certain way to die is to believe you are already dead.

True or not, every story has something it wants you to remember. True or not, every story has something it wants you to believe.

It's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's for sale. No - it's like being ready to pay full price for a top and then learning it's free!

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.

I have never been given these words in this way before. This small piece of gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts testimony, one part lamentation.

If she'd been bleeding in the street, you would've run to get help. It's the same thing! Typical, I could hear you saying back. The whole point is that I wasn't bleeding in the street . I wasn't dying of cancer. You couldn't take an X-ray and see what was wrngsithme. You couldn't make such an easy diagnosis. You had to guess. And everybody guessed wrong. But the things is, I hadn't even made the guess. I trusted that you knew what you were doing. You were very convincing. And I destroyed you.

There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens.

but if you keep focusing on why you have it so bad, you'll never realize how you could have it so good.

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.