Quotes About Perspective

He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist.

She wasn't actually a girl you'd turn around and look at again, and remember, I suppose; she wasn't actually pretty, I guess you'd have to say. But after I'd talked to her a few times, and had a Coke date once, when I ran into her downtown-then she was pretty.

If you see the world in black and white, you're missing important grey matter.

They say love is blind, but for me it's the opposite. It makes me see the good in him, too, which is why I can never hate him.' --Mom (Fran)

Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.

A man in Black and White" Some years ago, a child was asked whether he liked radio or television best. The boy said radio, because the pictures were better.

Another Grandfather" Every generation tells of how the good world died.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what really throws you into a panic.

Anyone who expects fairness in this life is seriously misinformed.

I will never to the end of my days ever begin to understand my fellow human beings.

Let's hope that when you're coming down I'll be looking up.

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

I see Donny turning to throw the words over his shoulder on his way across the lawn to the porch. Casually, but with an odd sort of sincerity about him, as though this were absolute gospel. "My mom says Meg's the lucky one," he said. "My mom says she got off easy.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them.

It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant.

The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness.

There is a palpable relief when I teach the perspective of nobility, of training in compassion, of non-religious ways to transform suffering and nurture our sacred connection to life.