Quotes About Perspective

news is never all the news, only what they want to show you

From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own.

Well," he said, "you can either do the wrong thing and let a loss like that destroy you, or you can do the right thing and be properly grateful for all that came before the loss. Grief should drive you to your knees, but if you stay there forever, you're saying you know better than God how the world should work. And you don't.

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?

Throughout their seven years of marriage, they had conducted their lives by different clocks. She dwelled as much in the future as in the present, envisioning where she wished to go, relentlessly mapping the path that ought to lead to her high goals. Her strong mainspring was wound tight. Neil lived in the moment. To him, the far future was next week, and he trusted time to take him there whether or not he planned the journey. They

Much of the world is beautiful, and much more is at least fair to the eye, and what might be ugly is nevertheless of the same texture as everything else and clearly belongs in the tapestry.

Be of the world and in the world and above the world all at once. Be you and only you

Is this the sunniest of sunny days or isn't it?" "What?" "You've got eyes, child. Look around, look around!" "Sure, it's sunny." "Then you be sunny, too, and things will turn out better than if you aren't.

Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are.

An abundance of pessimists might bend reality to Armageddon just by expecting

pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative.

Remember Carl Jung. Werner Heisenberg. The tenuous nature of reality on the quantum level. Attitude, attitude, attitude!

Envy, Bob. Envy eats them alive. If you had money, they'd envy you that. But since you don't, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

I believed that I now knew what a lobster felt as it languished in a tank beside the maître d' station in a restaurant, while hungry patrons, waiting to be seated, tapped the glass and remarked upon its size and succulence.

Guns don't feel nothin' about you, one way or t'other. No fair reason for you to feel bad towards them.

That's life. Always something, more good than bad, but always interesting if you're paying attention.

What matters is the day at hand and what we do with it, one day at a time, some butter-side-down days, some butter-side-up. And what should we do with the day?

I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place...

I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet.

Action. Action, shaped by intelligence and a moral perspective, is the answer to most problems.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. I tend to do that. Any life isn't just one story; it's thousands of them. So when I try to tell one of my own, I sometimes go down an alleyway when I should take the main street, or if the story is fourteen blocks long, I sometimes start on block four and have to backtrack to make sense.

Maybe it's not a gift. Maybe it's a curse." "It's a gift." Tapping my head, I said, "I've still got the box it came in.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.

Carson heard that expression more often these days—It is what it is—and it nettled him every time someone spoke it.