Quotes About Perspective

But my dad had argued that he didn't know the language of cars. To him, everything had its own language—the language of breakfast, the language of business, the language of politics, and on and on. In Spanish he knew all the languages, but for as long as he'd been speaking English, he believed he knew it only in certain realms.

Mi vida conyugal es muy feliz y plena... pero me resulta imposible conservar mi rango de manera razonable, puesto que ya no soy dueño y señor, simplemente marido. Príncipe Alberto de Inglaterra.

No quería dejar de hablar de amor para hablar de postres. Sólo quería dejar de hablar de amor para hacerlo.

Some of them were confused and angry, but given the same circumstances, I was convinced that I would have turned out just like them. It was the difference in where we were born, and to whom, that separated us---not the difference of who we were.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists.

Oh, get off the cross!" V shouted when I shared my thoughts with her on the phone. "We need the wood!

You've got to learn to trust Him, Cup. You're not always going to be able to see the big picture.

We don't always recognize mercy when we see it. It isn't always what we want or think we need, but it's there. It's here.

Brand is how others see you, culture is how you see yourself.

I want to look at you as you kill me

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.

it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself.

My wife disagrees with 100 percent of what I say. That's the same marriage I have.

change can be neither positive or negative

People might not change but their incentives could.

Too often, she looked forward to the end of something—to beginning the remembering—more than the thing itself.

Humans looked at the stars and they wished and they dreamed. He looked at the stars and knew they didn't matter. The stars were just chunks of glass in the black sky. No, the stars were meaningless.

We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.

Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Buddhists, Unitarians, Hindus, Druids, Shintoists, Wiccans, and so on. To put a spin on the old saying, it's okay if you don't believe in angels. We believe in you.

Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.