Quotes About Perspective

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

Time is relative to where you are, what you do, and who you are waiting for.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind- the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.

My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Sometimes we see things not as they are but as we are: Love brings understanding

Love is one of those jokes you have to be there to get.

For a man the whole world is his love. For a woman love is her whole world.

If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money

It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round, And here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right-side-up or upside-down, And is this real or am I dreaming?

Life is very short and there's no time, for fussing and fighting my friend. I have always thought that it's a crime, so I will ask you once again: try to see it my way, only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong. While you see it your way, there's a chance that we might fall apart before too long. We can work it out.

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation

Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

A weed is but an unloved flower.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week

The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got

You can doubt anything if you think about it long enough cuz what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that