Quotes About Perspective

I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected.

It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never ask if he's right- or left-handed. After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me.

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

Then Henry speaks again. Did he do it? I turn to him slowly. Does it matter?

For every person you make happy, there's another one you disappoint.

We all have stories we tell ourselves, until we believe them to be true.

Here are the things I know for sure: When you think you're right, you are most likely wrong. Things that break—be they bones, hearts, or promises—can be put back together but will never really be whole. And, in spite of what I said, you can miss a person you've never known. I learn this over and over again

Violence, from one angle, looked like mercy from another.

You can be happy for someone else's good fortune but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

Busy is just a euphemism for being so focused on what you don't have that you never notice what you do.

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

You okay in there? No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

Change your point of view, and the perspective is completely different.

I'm at the age where that's a surprise, where I still think I'm going to see a younger woman rather than the one who blinks back at me.

Work and play is the same thing just with a different perspective.

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude

work, pray and play not from here

Being surrounded by successful people, doesn't mean you made it.

I don't have any babies or ambition. I have it all!

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.