Quotes About Perspective

To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.

To put this in perspective, if you cooked these three meals at home instead of going out to eat, you'd save yourself, on average, 2,381 calories and 6,724 mg sodium over the course of just three nights.

Anyone else tired of how media eats your brain?

I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it.

Sometimes to be the bigger person, you gotta be the little guy.

Daniel Alejandro Valdes

My favourite bit of advice comes from Dr. Daniel Amen's 18, 40, 60 Rule: "At 18 you worry about what everyone thinks of you. At 40 you don't care. At 60 you realise no one was thinking about you anyway!

A fish in a bowl thinks to know it all, for it has never seen the ocean.

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

When I was, like thirteen I thought it would be really cool to be a prostitute... I Thought It was like handsome guys would take you out on these romantic dates and you´d fuck them and then they´d pay you...

I'd gladly read something that is exceptionally stupid or bad as long as it was done by someone with some sort of personal vision, even if that person was a complete moron.

It's not events, but our opinions about them, which cause us suffering." Ellis

He always asks questions, and those questions are always the same: personal, direct, focused on the big picture. What did you think of it? What would you have done in that situation?

Epictetus, who said, "It's not events, but our opinions about them, which cause us suffering.

Embrace the Messenger:

Increasing people's sense of power—that is, tweaking a situation to make them feel more invulnerable—dramatically diminished their willingness to cooperate.

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of imagination for an insight into necessity.

You don't have to do a bunch of crazy stuff to make your life complete. You just have to deal with life.

you and I disagree…is with regard to the bombing. You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians and I don't give a damn. I don't care.