Quotes About Perspective

Plain, homely women like you and me will never lead a glamorous life, never go to exotic places. So books have a special value to us. We can experience most everything vicariously, through books. This isn't bad. Living through books is even better than having friends and knowing... men.

All that was considered evil on this side of the glass might be judged good on the other side. Truth here might be lies there, and the future might precede the past.

maybe I shouldn't have regarded the ISA as omniscient and omnipresent.

Not as bad as a Sherpa

not one to dwell on loss, because to dwell on it was to disrespect the gift of life and risk becoming obsessed with the fact that all the losses throughout the years eventually lead to the loss of life itself.

It was unnerving to have allies who struck you as goofy; it made your own opinions seem suspect.

I have seldom crossed the city line of Pico Mundo and have never been beyond the boundaries of Maravilla County) The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness, and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

Those in the Mysterium had different views about to whom and when the truth of them should be revealed. Their

Sad to say, not all human beings were that open-minded. Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

We all arrive in this world with a ticket out of it, but somehow, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, we remain convinced that those we care about will be with us for a long ride.

Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? And maybe we don't always need to know the answers to them. Each thing we don't understand is a wall, and we spend our lives throwing ourselves against those walls, with little to show for it in the end. Maybe sometimes it's just best to accept the limitations of our understanding, accept that some things will be forever beyond our knowledge." He realized that he was

But the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.

Just like happy, sad didn't last. There was mostly the place between, so the tears stopped before the weather did.

postmodern man who denies the existence of any Truth and believes that each of us makes his own truth that is as valid as any other.

If this is a lonely life, it is also colorful.

No, what I've got here is good for me.

I thought it was of a heart attack, but then I realized no one ever said as much.

Life was too short to dwell on nightmares instead of dreams.

Yeah. Because tonight I was that drawing. I always thought I knew exactly who I was. Then a simple shift of perspective, and I see a different me. Which one is real and which is fiction?

It's not tragedy, the way they report it, not horror, certainly not war reporting. It's all spectacle, and once you let yourself see it that way, your soul begins to turn to dust.

have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion