Quotes About Perspective

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. —Isaac Bashevis Singer

One of the greatest tragedies in human interaction is that we believe 'will' can change everything—it can't.

Those with the deepest lows also have the loftiest highs.

You think a king worth more than other men? Xau did not, despite my efforts to correct his misconception.

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

Edward counseled that a photograph of consequence could be made from just about anything. Subject matter, in itself, was not critical. The understanding of the photographer was.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Anyway, everybody gets something, and nobody gets everything, and that's the way it is.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Oh, I know you think the corals too young for me. You have not worn them since you left off dotted muslins. You insist upon growing old. I insist upon remaining young.

You 'ain't found out yet we're women-folks, Nanny Penn," said she. "You 'ain't seen enough of men-folks yet to. One of these days you'll find it out, an' then you'll know that we know only what men-folks think we do, so far as any use of it goes, an' how we'd ought to reckon men-folks in with Providence an' not complain of what they do any more than we do of the weather.

We did have some difficult times. Really, there were more good times than bad. I've been honest about a lot of the things that happened and the truth is, I have more good memories than bad ones.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.

You never come back, not all the way. Always, there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier, thin as the glass of a mirror. You never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

I began to measure things in absence instead of presence.