Quotes About Perspective

How serious is it to cut out that little section behind the brow that separates what a Nice Girl Sees and Hears from What Really Happens.

Friendship in youth represents sympathy without understanding; in age, understanding without sympathy.

In the land of the blind the third eyed man is king

It's a good thing we don't know when we start out that when we arrive we haven't gone anyplace. What's wrong with success? Kelly asked, exasperated. You just walked out on the biggest hit show on Broadway, something you'd always wanted. Why did you leave? Because, Kelly, I said slowly, nothing, but nothing is half as good as you expect it to be.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it.

Give the narrative a lighter tone than you think it deserves, dear boy, lighter than you can bear to give it because you won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope

The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish to see them. - Addison Goodheart pg. 119

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be. People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks. Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring.

As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk, Milo said, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

What if his words had the effect of polio on me? WHat a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.

Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals

Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?

Buku yang bisa ku baca berulang-ulang, dengan sudut pandang baru dan pengertian baru setiap kalinya.

I look at it and I say, You've got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!