Quotes About Perspective

I circled the next puddle and said, "I'm going to let you in on a secret: People don't grow up like you think they do." Rae sighed and said, "What are you talking about?" "The whole grown-up thing is a myth. Whatever is wrong with you now will probably be wrong with you in twenty years.

If you had a guy who could carry you, why weren't women carried around all the time?

Emily Dickinson calls it 'truth told slant,

I believed, at twenty-two, that I had to force myself toward whatever filled me with dread, and along the way I'd lost the idea that fear was a useful gauge of risk.

Perhaps because the camera reserved judgment.

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.

mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.

Your story is important.

Comparison is and will always be the thief of all joy.

Life's too short to fold fitted sheets!

I've been called worse," he assures me, "and perhaps I am guilty as charged. I guess it depends on who is defining what constitutes a lady's man." The statement strikes me as true beyond its intention. How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours, and the truth. —Joe Massino CHAPTER

I think all men get a macho rise out of the idea of creating a baby on some level, but that doesn't mean they're happy when the big belly and dirty diapers come around.

I'm not going away, Amy. You do know that, don't you?" … "I don't need a protector, Liam." "I see things differently." My spine locks into a steel bar. "I'm not your ---" "Not yet. But I want you to be.

What you want when you have a hard on for a girl, is rarely what you want when you pull out.

Laughter is like crying.

And if you yourself are incompatible with your view of the world?

The psychology degree comes from the fact that I was a chemistry major and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. Spring will come." ? Robert H. Schuller

I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.

Movie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus

Nowadays people formulate truth; they don't find it.

It's not so easy to dismiss people you disagree with when you sense God working in their lives too. Later,

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.