Quotes About Perspective

Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.

Nothing feels worse than other people's good times.

This got him to the door. There, ridiculously, he turned. It was only at the door, he decided in retrospect, that her conduct was quite in excusable: not only did she stand unncessarily close, but, by shifting the weight of her body to one leg and leaning her head sidewise, she lowered her height several inches, placing him in a dominating position exactly suited to the broad, passive shadows she must have known were on her face. ("Snowing in Greenwich Village)

What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.

Those born rich are harder to please than those born poor.

While some of us burned on the edges of life, insatiable and straining to see more deeply in, he sat complacently at the centre and let life come to him — so much of it, evidently, that he could not keep track of his appointments.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

Weeds don't know they're weeds.

You were never in Texas," she says.He remembers the house on that strange treeless residential street, the green night growing up from the prairie, the flowers in the window, and says, "Absolutely I was.""Doing what?""Serving Uncle.""Oh, in the Army; well that doesn't count. Everybody's been to Texas with the Army.""You order whatever you think is good," Rabbit tells Tothero.

Maybe the dead are gods, there's certainly something kind about them, the way they give you room. What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand. The more dead you know it seems the more living there are you don't know.

Odat? cu nenorocirea, vine È™i o uÈ™urare, o înseninare: porÈ›iuni vaste ale vieÈ›ii tale sunt date la o parte, devin dintr-odat? neînsemnate.

Men are absolutely shits, but we get them in the end because we can suffer better. A woman can outsuffer a man every time.

It's funny, I don't feel any older than I did when I was twenty. But I know I am, because recently some twenty-year-old called me 'sir.' Sometimes the only way you know you are getting older is by the way others treat you.

Change your present perspective and change what you think and do, and you can change your future. You are not a slave to your past. Your present situation may be the result of the decisions you made in your past, but your future will be the result of the decisions you make now.

To the dialectical partner, the question is never Who is right? Rather, the question is How do our views fit together? Nothing stands independent of its opposite; rather, the two positions have common elements that allow harmonizing and blending.

I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don't want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.

Let's Look at Subjective Religious Experiences This Way: What if ten thousand people went up to a mountain top, saw something, and then they all disagreed with what they saw, even people who largely agreed with each other? Even with this best possible analogy to subjective religious experiences we would still have a reason to think the lack of oxygen caused them all to hallucinate.

It is true that some of the miracles of the Bible are reported to have occurred in the presence of a good number of witnesses. But it must be emphasized that the testimony of one person, or even of four, that some event was witnessed by a multitude is not the same as having the testimony of the multitude itself.

Women in the scriptures were not systematically ignored any more than the majority of men were; they simply wielded their influence in a more intimate, less visible sphere.

If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays!

I'm so lucky to be having a happy childhood as an adult.

Just because something 'happens', because it is 'true', because the 'facts' are correct, does not ensure that it is the truth.

With humans it's abortion, but with chickens it's an omelet!

Listen to your political enemies, especially the smart ones, and then figure out a way to make them laugh.