Quotes About Perspective

Como si cuando muriera alguien muy cercano a nosotros intercambiásemos los lugares. Y cuando lo superáramos, en realidad, estuviéramos viviendo su vida pero al revés: desde la muerte a la vida; desde la enfermedad a la salud

She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, you're disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem." Excerpt From: David Levithan. "The Lover's Dictionary." iBooks.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: 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. The

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

Sonhar e amar e transar. Nenhuma dessas coisas é uma identidade. Talvez quando as outras pessoas olham para nós, mas não para nós mesmos.

Observar o mundo de cima, e ficar a sós comigo mesmo. Aquilo, descobri, era do que eu precisava.

It is my father who looks diminished now. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

Zakochanie si? w drugiej osobie nie oznacza, ?e wiesz, co ta druga osoba czuje, wiesz tylko, co ty czujesz

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.

There is this book, Destroy All the Cars. It's about how caring about something deeply can also make you hate the world, because the world can be really disappointing. But don't worry-- it's also funny, too. Because that's how you get through all the disappointment, right? You have to find it all funny.

You say that someday your prince will come. More than anything, you want him to reply, But what if your prince is right under your nose? Instead he says, Well, as long as he's mot one of those deposed princes... You wish he weren't such a prince. You wish he were a frog.

I'm always jealous of people who get to be new to New York because they get to be amazed by it... I worry that it's like living at a high elevation. I've gotten used to breathing here and every part of my body is tuned to living here.

Do you know what I learned? I learned that leaving is bullshit. Because you always take yourself wherever you go.

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.

David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us.

The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that's all about how other people react.

It's maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.

We all have at least two sides. The world we live in is a world of opposites. And the trick is to reconcile those opposing things. I've always liked both sides. In order to appreciate one, you have to know the other. The more darkness you can gather up, the more light you can see too.

you keep your eye on the donut not the hole.

As one woman noted, "The best way to get over one man is to get under another."24

and a knell rang in the ears of the victors, even in their hour of triumph. —Winston Churchill, 1927

But there was also something swimming, an idea, a dream of what we were striving for and what it would look like when we got there. Then we got there, and it didn't look the same at all, somehow...Are all human beings malcontents?

Cain wonders what his father had made of him at this age. The idea is startling, that he and his father might have such things in common as pleasures and annoyances of parenthood. Seldom has he let himself consider the world through his father's eyes.

We can only interpret the behavior of others through the screen we create.