Quotes About Perspective

The earth is flat. Those who fall off don't return. The earth is round. All things reveal themselves to men only gradually. I

And I am not old," she continued. "I am but thirty." "Ah, but you will be thirty-one come the sixth of March," he said. "You certainly are not young." "I believe we may have to return to the topic of my weight," she said tartly. "You will be more apt to see thirty-six that way.

A constant awareness of his superiority keeps things in perspective and, frankly, takes the pressure off. If God is in charge, I don't have to be—and neither do you. What a relief! So let your fear turn to wonder. And let your wonder turn to faith, as you believe in the One who saves you from yourself.

She was, she realized, the unhappy possessor

From Joe Gardener's Notebook "You are taste and smell and feeling of pen on paper, you are perfect- Do you know how perfect you are? .. I am nothing but a pair of eyes, waiting to be looked into

family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.

We're not from the same Britain," Geoffrey said. "I don't come from your grandfather's Great Britain. I come from a rat-infested, coal-filled hole in England called Newcastle. My people were all miners, domestics, and dung shovelers.

to remember the details, I'm not the only one, and you needn't feel sorry for me. In fact, there are two other

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

It's important to live a complicated life.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception.

does one start believing in love? How do you turn off your brain and everything you've seen and heard in the past twenty years?

at the end of the day, people who are positive and optimistic are simply more attractive than people who are negative and pessimistic.

And then I got really sad. I'm simply too young to hate my body. I'm going to be old in like two minutes, and my body really will be difficult to love. But now, well, it's fine. Why shouldn't I admire it ? It's mine and it keeps me healthy and I should accept it, just the way it is. There are people who are sick or disabled and who would kill to have a strong, healthy body, and the last thing they're worrying about is their fucking cellulite.

Stories don't always reflect the world; they make it, too. A book is a world inside the world, and sometimes there are worlds within that.

had often occurred to Chen how shattering it must be for someone who had devoted their whole life to material possessions to suddenly find themselves in a world where status depended on entirely more intangible matters. He

What did it matter what she wrote about a dead Swedish girl, when people in other parts of the world did nothing but kill each other?

Reality is something you rise above.

Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbor's worst date ever?

Funny how you can get used to not having things you thought you couldn't live without.

Once you taste a little of the sweetness that life can be, there really is no going back.

Someone else's idea of happiness was a lot easier to attain than a happiness I could not envision and didn't think I deserved.

It's not the end of the world, but you can definitely see it from there.