Quotes About Perspective

How do they who think they are unhappy differ from they who actually are?

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

Some things belong only to the people who lived them.

Happiness isn't that hard to find, you know. It's everywhere. It's all around us. But it's not something that happens to us. It's something we seek. It's something we pursue.

Yeah, I feel super sorry for you that you have to be locked in a car with a guy that looks like Chris Evans after the super soldier serum.

All at once she was eighteen, a stupid girl with a stupid crush who believed that someone like Will might actually see her as anything more the his best friend's kid sister.

Time doesn't heal all wounds. Time gives you distance and perspective. The time we had wasn't enough, but it wasn't nothing. I lived twenty-two amazing years as their son. And that was a gift.

A crucial premise of interpretation is that the Bible is designed to challenge us and our worldview.

we all also possess preunderstandings, though we may not be conscious of them all. As we examine an issue or the text, it is helpful to consider how we are approaching the question and why. Sometimes it is dialogue with someone who thinks differently that helps us see why we see things the way we do.

It's not enough to be right. You also have to be interesting.

The past is a foreign country -- and increasingly I don't want to visit.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

The day before, everything had been normal—boring, even. It's hard to comprehend how fantastic normality can be until . .

our beliefs invariably drive our decision making.

I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

The most prolific teachers of critical thinking in my lifetime are stand-up comedians

The way we understand human life depends on what conception we have of the human story.