Quotes About Perspective

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

Is it my birthday again? Already? Where does the time go?" "Behind us --or in front. It depends on which way you are looking.

Have you ever noticed that? We base our assessment of the intelligence of others almost entirely on how closely their thinking matches our own. I'm sure that there are people out there who violently disagree with me on most things, and I'm broad-minded enough to conceded that they might possibly not be completely idiots, but I much prefer the company of people who agree with me. You might want to think about that.

The way you talk about yourself and your lifeyour storyhas a great deal to do with what shows up in your day-to-day experience. Your thoughts create filters through which you view your life. If you think of yourself as a Victim, you filter all that happens to you through the lens of DDT, and you find plenty of evidence to support that viewpoint. Thats why the orientation you adopt is so important: it exerts a powerful influence on your life direction.

From a portfolio perspective, liabilities act like negative assets. In other words, borrowing by an individual offsets lending (ownership of bond or money-market funds) by that individual.

Without going into detail, after many years I have become convinced that the biblical references to same-sex behavior were written in a situational and cultural context that does not apply to people with a homosexual orientation, and that the Bible does not give specific instruction regarding how homosexuals should live.

Maybe my story needs to be told specifically because it is less heart wrenching. In spite of periods where I have struggled and been in pain, my story provides generous glimpses into what a Christian attitude toward homosexuality might look like.

I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.

Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

Los lectores siempre se encuentran a sí mismo, de una forma o de otra, en un libro. Leer es un estímulo completamente egoísta. Buscamos inconscientemente lo que nos dice algo. Por muy estrambóticas o improbables que sean las historias que los escritores crean, siempre habrá lectores que les dirán: «¡Increíble! ¡Ha escrito usted mi vida!»

Readers always find themselves in a book, in one way or another. Reading is a completely egotistical pleasure. Unconsciously we expect books to speak to us. An author can write the most farfetched or implausible story ever, but there will still be readers who will still be readers who will say: 'I don't believe it: you wrote the story of my life!

A veces, en medio del dolor, llegamos a dudar de la realidad de lo que hemos vivido.

Le livre que l'on cherche n'est par forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.

Run?, ka pirms n?ves cilv?ka acu priekš? aizsl?d visi vi?a dz?ves skaist?kie mirk?i. Tikpat labi var gad?ties,ka visi pag?tnes neveiksmju un izmisuma mirk?i atgriežas apzi?? tieši tad, kad cilv?kam ac?s, atkl?jot savu satraucoš?ko smaidu, beidzot ieskat?s laime.

Elle avait l'impression d'être subitement devenue le centre du monde, quand son monde à elle n'existait plus.

Quand la cinquantaine arrive, on est trop vieux pour être jeune. Mais on est encore un peu jeune pour être vieux.

Nada mejor que las vidas ajenas para no vivir la propia.

Il la regarda comme si elle était un effraction de la réalité.

Es tan tentador no creerse las versiones oficiales…

Se puede medir la felicidad por el paso que lleva cada uno por la calle.

how could the act of kissing be gratuitous for her while it was inestimable for him? Yes, priceless. That kiss was everywhere in him, storming his body.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness—awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.