Quotes About Perspective

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

Lie to yourself until it's true.

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

What if it turns out that a life isn't defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you've lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.