Quotes About Perspective

Truth is a slippery concept." "No, the great thing about the truth is that it's true.

We're all background characters in someone else's movie.

Reminded you that everyone had their own reality, and yours was just one version.

the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don't have your glasses on while you're looking . . .

The problem with the best moment in your life is that every other moment is worse

That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally. From a certain perspective, the fear was more destructive than the actual killing.

Who holds the ultimate responsibility for the story? The writer or the reader, the reader or the writer . . .

He was feeling something we all feel once in a while: why me?

That is how the dead survive: they live in our memories, and some of the times that is a good thing and beautiful, and other times it is not good, and then the dead are like a virus in the blood, an infection of the mind. Then,

Something else: it always struck me as troubling that the words in books are printed in black and white, when life is anything but. The binary colour of words on a page give the sense of simplicity and clarity. But life doesn't work like that.

try thinking the same thing by darkness and see how different if feels.

Look at it like this: If your products and services start at $50,000, and that person has a true budget of $20,000, do you think he is magically going to come up with an extra $30,000 for your products and/ or services? In most cases, the answer is no. Instead of scaring the person, you're going to educate him, which brings relief and saves time for all parties involved.

Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, and an old man with something of the young: guided so, a man may grow old in body, but never in mind.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

We have the freedom to decide for ourselves how circumstances affect us and can choose to interpret events so that they have a meaning for us. In this way, even suffering can become endurable if it can be shown to be meaningful.

My husband's girlfriend worked for an airline, but she was not a flight attendant, like I'd first assumed. She was an actual pilot. I supposed that made it better.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

"Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine.... "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said.... Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones.