Quotes About Perspective

Learn to look for and appreciate the love, beauty and kindness around you. It's there, but, you may have to change your thinking and behaviour to discover it

What is love? In English, a language; In Math, a problem; In History, a war; In Geography, a mountain; In Chemistry, a reaction and in a painting, a heart.

Too many times in life we are too busy looking for what we want that we are blind to the fact that we already have all we need. Family, friends and love.

Sometimes we need to know what love feels like when its wrong before we can truly appreciate it, when its RIGHT.

Love is when you think you can change someone, but they end up changing you.

Miserable people focus on the things they hate about their life. Happy people focus on the things they love about their life.

Sometimes, people who are thousands of miles away can make you feel better than people right beside you.

One day you will ask me which is more important my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Love is individual to each person and I dont think you can define it before experiencing it because it isnt going to be the same for everybody.

I once asked an old man: Which is more important to love or to be loved? He replied: which is more important to a bird, the left wing or the right wing?

All the problem of women, starts with men. All the problem of men, ends with women.

You will always have your own problems. But remember, the little ones will not matter as much when you take on someting as meaningful and life changing as one that makes a difference for others.

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you're zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have. What occurs to people when they read Kurt is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something....

we base our lives more on what we believe than on what we actually know.

The most influential is his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.76 To this day, Story's Commentaries stands as a definitive source for understanding the Constitution from an originalist perspective. The

It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.

If I'm not 100% comfortable in her world and she's not 100% comfortable in mine...then we'll make our own world.

America heals, but America is not the world.

If you live in the knowledge that this world is a gateway to the next, it can be a comfort.

If you simply accept life as it is, you will be a lot more fulfilled and increasingly worry free.