Quotes About Perspective

Sometimes perspective comes far too late. You cannot trust yourself. You think you can, but you can't. Not because you are selfish. You cannot live for anyone else's sake. As much as you may want to, you can't stay alive just because other people want you alive. You cannot stay alive for your parents. You cannot stay alive for your friends. And you have no responsibility to stay alive for them. You have no responsibility to anyone but yourself to live.

Love is something you can never get inside of. You might think you're there. Sure. But then you hit the border and realize you've been outside the whole time.

I can tell there are lots of thoughts she's considering, but I have no idea what they are. Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

having someone think of me that way was like discovering a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

O som das palavras quando são ditas é sempre diferente do som que fazem ao serem ouvidas, porque o falante ouve parte do som do lado de dentro.

Do you think there can be such a thing as too much happiness?

I was once in the body of a blind girl,' I tell her. 'When I was eleven. Maybe twelve. I don't know if she was my favorite, but I learned more from being her for a day than I'd learn from most people over a year. It showed me how arbitrary and individual it is, the way we experience the world. Not just that the other senses were sharper. But that we find ways to navigate the world as it is presented to us. For me, it was this huge challenge. But for her, it was just life.

It's always a low when life beings to imitate an old Chevy Chase movie.

The bad can be found in anything. It is so much easier to find than the good.

That's the dilemma, isn't it? When you're single, there's the sadness and joy of only me. And when you're paired, there's the sadness and joy of only you.

There are two kinds of drivers, he thinks: those who see the world around the road, and those who fixate on the road itself. We'll end up where we want to be. We always do.

We choose how much of the world we want to let into our lives. Both the beauty of it and the horror of it. There has to be a point of insulation -- but some of us insulate real close right down to our very selves and others insulate wider, let more of the world in.

His gratitude is a rare thing—it is much more likely for a boy to feel thankful for the Diet Dr Pepper than he is to feel thankful for being healthy and alive, for being able to walk to his boyfriend's house at age fifteen without any doubt that this is the right thing to do.

It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being.

Lo que tú sientes es absolutamente lo correcto para ti. Siempre recuerda eso.

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.

If happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not.

Falling in love with someone doesn't mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel -A

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them

jed is not a smoker but he's smoked. i am not a smoker and i have never smoked

I'm still me, and eventually he will see that.

You are not as messed up as I am.