Quotes About Perspective

I was daunted by you, and you were daunted by me. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

Codiciar. Existe una diferencia entre tú y yo: tú deseas lo que tienen los otros mientras que yo deseo las cosas que tenía, o las que creo que tendré en el futuro.

Even though the liquid is easier to see, you have to learn to appreciate the air.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

truth is, thinking about depression depresses the shit out of me.

This is the problem with having a barrier between you and everyone else--you see it, but they don't. They talk to you, but you can't talk back to them.

It felt a littlel less like a game. A trick. A trap.

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there.

i have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a group of kids who either hate your guts or are kissing up to you to get a good grade.

I do believe that most of the times your life changes, you don't realize in the moment that it's on the cusp of being altered.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let it.

We're not gay. We're eight.

No sólo está narrando la historia, me la está dando.

The worst thing in the world would be to pretend to know the people whose lives I step through. They cannot be home to me. They must be hotel rooms.

Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?

I know I am lying to myself, but I also choose to believe it.

That's the thing about life and love - every time you take another look at them, there's something else that can be revised.

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

The air feels cleaner because when the world is below us, we allow ourselves to breathe fully.

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

The minute you stop talking about individuals and start talking about a group, your judgment has a flaw in it.

He thought it was love. When, in fact, it was like three hundred ninety-fifth in line for love.

Maybe this is what alone really is—finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else. I