Quotes About Perspective

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they really are.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

Mid-life crises, in Fran's ageing view, are a luxury compared with what she has seen of end-of-life crises.

she too lives in and for words, for the words of others. Other men's flowers. 'These are other men's flowers, only the string that binds them is my own.

For the past is not fixed: it changes as we change, and we look back and perceive in it different messages, different patterns. Our past selves speak to our future selves. We are part of a continuing process.

I mean, he told me that the shittiness of Warren having another girlfriend paled in comparison to the epic shittiness of your shitty husband

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.