Quotes About Perspective

Louis Johnson still don't really believe I can read, which might be why he keep showing me grocery list upside down and saying it's a classified document.

This Singer think because he come from where we come from that he understand how we live. But he don't understand nothing. Everybody think the way him think when they leave and come back. That everything was exactly how they leave it. But we different. We harder than him and we don't care. He flee before you turn into something like we. And

Like Jesus telling Judas To get it done already Me is you, Pilate me is you, Roman soldier You don't even know who your Judas was

I don't really care what other people think about art, sir. Either you get it or you don't, and it seems pretty stupid waiting on people to get it when you could just as easily enjoy having more museum space to yourself, thank to one less idiot telling me how his four-year-old daughter could do that.

Everybody lives in their own Jamaica and damn if that was ever going to be mine.

I am content with much. This world never gives me anything, and yet I have everything I want.

Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one.

There is one, a girl, I know she hates me, and it bothers me, because I see with her eyes and she is right.

You think this is about setting aright what is askew, disorder back into order. That is the shit men think, to make any wicked action right in their eyes.

Stop talking about truth - I fed you truth all along, but as I said before, what you want is story.

Notice that supportive touch alone makes the difference. "Talking about it" may be of limited use when a mate is anxious or irritable. Talking uses the rational brain, while holding your partner instead—preferably in silence—soothes the "problem child" itself, the amygdala. (Guys will appreciate the "in silence" part.) The time to talk will come later when perspective is restored.

As my husband quipped, "If orgasm was the magic bullet, porn addicts would be the healthiest people on the planet.

Self-pity is the mother of misery, bearing first a small pain, then eventually growing to consume all the joy we could have experienced. Reject self-pity and choose joy as quickly as possible.

Look up more than you look around.

My first thought is the feeling itself. The second thought is, "God, please help me understand this from Your perspective.

New perspectives help us connect the dots.

Jesus, Talk to me about this from Your perspective.

I know nothing. (based on James 4:14)

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

I've always liked high school. I'm not deluded, of course. I know these aren't the best years of my life, but as a subject and experience, it's pretty interesting.

my partner wants more affection than I'm giving her, she is "needy and dependent." But if I want more affection than she is giving me, then she is "aloof and insensitive.