Quotes About Perspective

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

Like other intellectuals, he welcomed the mindless drudgery as a refreshing change of pace.

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.

I have to say that I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of course. But if He had tried a bad birth He would know what pain is.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

The truth is the last thing that matters.

how it is that men, even thoughtful men, can sound as if they never consider anything but always simply know.

I developed a style of writing: first person, so that you are in someone's shoes, facing their dilemmas, and present tense, so that you have no historians' hindsight, you are in the then and there, not looking back.

any mean, ambitious man,...counts his losses more than his gains.

Any triumph she has is halved if I am not there to see it. And anything that goes wrong for me, any slight or humiliation, she is quick to perceive and she would even be quick to revenge—oh!—but inside her heart is singing to know that I have taken a blow.

Child, you cannot change a king, you can only make him laugh.

I am a dreamer, he concedes. I don't deny it, but I have seen enough to know the world. Perhaps my dream is of a better one.

When she looked down the hall at Anne and at me it was as if she looked straight through us, as if we were nothing but clear panes of Venetian glass and all she wanted to know was what might be beyond. She did not seem to envy us, nor see us as rivals to her father's attention or even as a danger to her mother's place. She saw us as a pair of light women, so insubstantial that the wind might blow us away in a merciful puff. She

She knows, and I know, that she rode in the Tudor barge past my window when I was in sanctuary, and she enjoyed her moment of triumph then. And she knows, and I know, that I have the upper hand now. We don't forget that. We aren't men to clap each other on the back and say 'No hard feelings' after a battle. But we know also that the world has changed and we have to change too.

Looking from one bright delighted face to another I thought for one illuminating moment what fools we were to make this one man's temper the very centre of our lives

C'est compliqué, c'est le passé, pas important.

À toutes mes haines acidulées, vous avez donné le narcotique raisonnable.

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it's still got two sides.

In the meantime, let's agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it's yours.

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.