Quotes About Perspective

Mi papá dice que no, que una cosa es matarla para comerla y otra matarla por odio, que eso no debemos. Así que la gallinita de la verga le sigue dando huevos al vecino.

La desigualdad es esa manera tan absolutamente natural en que una empresaria colombiana, un profesor mexicano, un hacendado salvadoreño dicen María sírvenos el café.

She wanted to think through the questions of faith herself, and she held fast to the belief that heaven on Earth would always outweigh heaven above.

Ebenezer Snell] never got over the idea that although people who loved each other might be apart, they could gaze up at the sky and see the same stars and the same moon. The scientist in him understood the phenomenon, but the poet in him appreciated the wonder.

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes you cannot now imagine.

Most people go through their whole lives," John went on, "and never have one miracle happen to them. You've had dozens and dozens, and you still want more! It's like God gives you a brownie, I mean a really good brownie, but you can't be content with it. You want the whole pan of brownies. Nobody gets that.

Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person's eyes or to experience that person's feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.

Sometimes, good people got on the wrong side of an argument. Sometimes, bad people got on the right side. The truth wasn't anyone's to control.

I hope you live long enough for something else big to shock you and make you question everything like it did me. It's uncomfortable at times to stare into the truth when it goes against what you think you know, but in the end, you'll feel more satisfied.

Well, that road ain't gonna lead you toward the bigger picture. Trust me.

Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.

Mamma said that when you don't love someone one bit, you have to try to see them like Jesus would. It's a hard thing to do. Even Mamma has to squint sometimes.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining ... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

On the night of New Year's Day, I thought of a wonderful New Year's resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Before you hate something you should try to understand it.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Emma, I want to tell you something about being right: being right is much harder on a person than being wrong.

If I don't like the way something unfolds, I reimagine it the way I'd rather have seen it happen.Memory doesn't dictate truth.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!