Quotes About Perspective

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." —Oprah Winfrey

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Danny smiles. Really smiles--like it means a lot that I'm not mad at him anymore. And then I figure out something weird: that you can be important to someone who doesn't mean much to you. But that once you find that out--that you mean something to them--it's hard not to feel that they mean something to you.

He, Sam McGowan, having been raised in a house where women were expected to achieve, had had any potential sexist inclination beaten out of him by his oldest sister long ago.

Life is too short. Why surround yourself with negative energy when you can be positive?

Hindsight's a bitch, isn't it?

I couldn't be with people and I didn't want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I'd lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.

As truth reality contains a large amount of imagination; in some cases, of lack of imagination.

Meaningless is everything, until it gains sense in someone's life…

People are all purpose tokens, but you must remember each adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, integrates… in its unique way. It is difficult and unfair to use generalized laws.

It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die." — Patty Belle Bellani

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I wonder what Adam and Evethink of it by this time.

Därer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

To have misapprehended the matter is to have confessed that one has not looked far enough.

when the daily reality presents itself as uncomprehendable, we fashion our own myths and then hold those phony truths to be inalienable.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. We can focus on what's wrong in our life, or we can focus on what's right.

My interior world does not correspond to the real world.

La gente que tiene el corazón en el cuello, en los labios, en los pantalones, en fin, en cualquier otro lugar que no sea en su lugar, acusa de no tener corazón a quien sí lo tiene en su lugar. Después de haber buscado en vano ese corazón en cada uno de los lugares que ellos conocen para el corazón, se convencen de que no tiene corazón; pues él lo tiene justamente en su lugar y ahí no se les ocurre buscarlo[1].

Sometimes God knocks us back a bit to remind us we're not as big and mighty as we thing.