Quotes About Perspective

Stop fighting battles that don't exist. Focus on what does. And don't take it all on yourself.

We look to the so-called important figures. We value the papers left behind by Premiers, Prime Ministers, Presidents—by the most prominent witnesses to history—and forget there are other witnesses. The people who actually lived it. The First Nations. The farmers. The cooks and cleaners and salespeople. The laborers. The immigrants, the minorities.

It was a post her former colleagues no doubt viewed as a significant step down. But Reine Marie wasn't interested in steps. She'd arrived at where she wanted to be. No more steps." Chapter 1 · Page 5 · Location 101

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses

I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

People believe what they want to believe. Beginning with their own lies." "Hell is the truth seen too late," said Reine-Marie as she poured out more coffee. "Thomas Hobbes.

Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees.

It's why we're all so fascinated with history. We're in a rowboat. We move forward, but we're always looking back.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

she'd forgotten snow could be quite so beautiful. Snow, in her experience, was something that needed to be removed. It was a chore that fell from the sky. But

the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

One of Gilbert's favorite quotes was from Henry David Thoreau. The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Gracie might, or might not, be a dog. The smart money was now on guinea pig, with hedgehog a close second.

When you see the worst you appreciate the best.

They say time heals. I think that's bullshit, I think time does nothing. It only heals if the person wants it to. I've seen time, in the hands of a sick person, make situations worse. They ruminate and brood and turn a minor event into a catastrophe, given enough time.

You're catastrophizing, allowing fear into the driver's seat. You're reacting to things that haven't happened and behaving as though they have, or are inevitable. Focus on what is actually happening, here and now." "Surrender to reality,

The mind is its own place, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven,

It's a reminder that if someone's happy, maybe that's the only reality that matters.

There is always another story / There is more than meets the eye.

Life can be cruel, as you know. But it can also be kind. Filled with wonders. You need to remember that. You have your own choice to make, Armand. What're you going to focus on? What's unfair, or all the wonderful things that happen? Both are true, both are real. Both need to be accepted. But which carries more weight with you? . . . The terrible or the wonderful? The goodness or the cruelty? Your life will be decided by that choice.

Your statistics might be right—" "They are." "—but your conclusions are wrong.

Often what seemed obvious was not a fact, or even the truth.

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

wrote that we can create situations in which we are happy, but we cannot create joy. It just happens.