Quotes About Perspective

If you think I'm handsome, there's obviously nothing wrong with your vision.

Sometimes I hated it when I was right, but I always hated it when someone else was. Especially when their being right made me wrong. I'm irrational that way. It's something I'm working on.

Mychael said the rock's not affecting you, and from what I'm seeing I'm inclined to agree." "I beg to differ." "Feeling evil?" Justinius asked. "No." "Having an urge to overthrow governments, kill thousands?" "No and no." "Take over the world?" "Too much work.

If I wasn't so happy he was alive, I would've killed him.

You can't be any earthly good if your head is always in the heavens.

One man's poison is another's elixir.

To him, the day was what was offered, not what wasn't.

Without sorrow, 'tis difficult to know the full threshold of joy.

OBJECTS IN DREAMS MAY BE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

Upon occasion, we misunderstand ourselves, or we lose faith. Whichever the case, we say things we think are true, only to find they are not.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.

Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

There are no right or wrong answers. Not when it comes to literature.

Don't borrow trouble from round the bend,

I always assume people's behaviors are a reaction to something I've done, not that they're just doing their thing.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't.

Stories change people. History, real history, helps people understand each other, see each other from the inside out.

Life never is just about what you want. Seldom ever.

Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

I'm trying to impress upon my students that everyone has a history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

No two readers read the same book, because we all see the words through different eyes, filter the story through different life experiences