Quotes About Perspective

And once I'm pretending that's the truth, I figure it might as well be the truth.

I always made it my mission to like him, because somebody has to like the people no one else likes or the world would just be hopeless. And the best way to extract holiday cheer, I've found, is to spend time with the most curmudgeonly person you know , and their grump can't help but force you into feeling good, because it gives you perspective and balance.

You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint—ask yourself who wrote them.

I think that reality has the distinct potential to completely suck, and the way to get around that is to step out of reality from time to time and find something a little more enjoyable with someone you completely, unadulteratedly

when you turn a short span of time into a "season," you create an echo chamber for all of its associations

I don't see what's so "romantic" about spending a week in a tropical paradise with your spouse whom you've already seen almost every day for the past quarter century.

That's funny. I've always liked Naomi's version of me the best. I'm always much more interesting when she talks about me.

You have to understand they're operating from a place of fear, like Fox News viewers.

Strand, Mark [Blah blah blah biographical information, crossed out with Sharpie pen.] We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it, As though we had written it.

Why do you lie I ask her. To block the truth. Fair enough. Naomi goes on. Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.

Girls, it's imperative you learn this now. She levels them with a mock-serious expression, and her rapt audience leans in. Boys are gonna come, and boys are gonna go. Unfortunately, some friends may even do the same. But dessert, y'all, will never let you down.

Do you hear the argument the other side makes?

If we looked through the eyes of history, we'd live differently. We'd live right.

Yes, and how did Josephus know?" continued Helen. "He wasn't on Masada, he was with the Roman army.

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul.

How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only this would do full honor to its terrible significance. But even pain is blessed with impermanence... p 259

Belief traps or frees us.

Everybody else is living my life and they are having far more fun than me.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

when teaching or parenting, you must always try to see things from the child's point of view and never use fear as a shortcut for education.

why do our enemies shape us more than our friends?

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