Quotes About Perspective

All you can do is try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be- even if it isn't what you expected.

That isn't going to happen," he told her. "It's going to be all right" "Fool," Kitai scoffed gently. "You do not know that." "Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them." "That is completely irrational." "Yes," Tavi agreed. "And true.

You know, I believe it is possible to reference something other than Star Wars, boss." I narrowed my eyes in Muppetly wisdom. "That is why you fail.

Sometimes you don't know the most important things," Tavi said. "You believe them.

she bowed just low enough to draw the young man's [Daniel Carpenter] eyes to her décolletage. He flushed and looked away sternly. After a second. Tough to blame the kid. I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe.

I snorted. "They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?" "Yeah." "You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind up like Miss Havisham," I said. "Watching life through a window and obsessed with how things might have been." "Dear God," she said. "You've just made Dickens relevant to my life." "Weird, right?" I asked her, nodding.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

your ability to comprehend your environment is very strongly defined by your belief in a number of illusions. Time. Truth. Love.

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind

Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

Granted, my perspective is different from that of nonwizards, but marching out into the woods, looking for a very large and very powerful creature by blasting out what you're pretty sure are territorial challenges to fight (or else mating calls) seems … somewhat unwise.

Honestly. He sometimes felt that humans simply had to be deliberately obtuse. What was so difficult about understanding civilized and excellently enunciated speech?

You can describe it to them as much as you want. You can write books about what you felt, what you experienced. You can compose poems and songs about what it was like. But until they've seen it for themselves, they can't really know what it is you're talking about. A few people will clearly see the effect it had on you, will understand that much, at least. But they won't know.

Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life.

You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap. - Thomas Raith

Which just goes to show that my cat has considerably more sense than me.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.

I tried to take that as a life lesson: never underestimate the little people.

I used to think I loved it. But now I realize that it's just dependency.

I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish.

He sees the color blue," the etherealist said. "But his color blue. Not yours.

It only means what you decide it means.