Quotes About Perspective

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

The point here is that there is as much disinformation and as little insight concerning the nature of killing coming from the media as from any other aspect of our society.

Worrying doesn't change anything, just causes unnecessary stress.

We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.

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I exaggerate a lot and I get fiction and reality mixed up, but I don't actually ever lie.

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.

My legs! Lord Jesus stop the pain in my legs!" "Hush John," Florida said. "That's only phantom pain." "Is it real?" I asked her. She shrugged. "All pain is real.

Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

Ma wrote true stories; not necessarily autobiographical, but close enough for horseshoes. Our family stories and memories have been slowly reshaped, embellished, and edited to the extent that I'm not sure what really happened all the time. Lucia said this didn't matter: the story is the thing.

When I'm with Joe none of this matters. I think he is a reporter because he likes to talk to people. Wherever we go we end up talking to strangers. And liking them. I don't think I ever really liked the world until I met him. My parents don't like the world, or me, or they would trust me.

Nada importa mucho, ¿no? Me refiero a importar de verdad. Sin embargo a veces de pronto, durante apenas un segundo, se te concede la gracia de creer que sí, que importa muchísimo. (Del cuento Perdidos)

Tony no abrió los ojos. Cualquiera que diga que sabe cómo te sientes es un iluso.

I get mad at everyone because they are working, living. Sometimes I hate you because you're not dying. Isn't that awful?