Quotes About Perspective

Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.

No, normalcy is taken for granted until it's gone.

You want, you want, you want; when you're so lucky to have, to have, to have.

instead I honestly feel lucky sometimes that I have gotten to feel and experience things that others have to struggle longer and harder to learn.

Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.

When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes we're inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are always enriched. Through this exposure we learn both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own thoughts -- that we are individuals, but not alone.

the powerful nature of what entering the lives of others can mean for our own lives. Drama makes more visible what each of us does when we pass over in our deepest, most immersive forms of reading. We welcome the Other as a guest within ourselves, and sometimes we become Other. For a moment in time we leave ourselves; and when we return, sometimes expanded and strengthened, we are changed both intellectually and emotionally.

Who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria37 of experiences, information, books we have read.

Como santo Tomás de Aquino, concibo el desacuerdo como el lugar donde «el hierro con hierro se afila».

gifted children perceive the world in fundamentally different ways

Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama.

A marriage is at its best at an altitude of thirty-five thousand feet on its way home from vacation.

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

That is the purpose of museums, of course. One does not go merely to collect facts and souvenirs and picture post cards, but to enlarge one's notion of all that has been, and all that is, and all that might be. In this way we begin to understand what part each of us was born to play in the marvelous tale of existence.

I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance

But when the seesaw of good fortune sinks downward for one person, it is very often on its way up for someone else. This little-known law of physics is called the Fulcrum of Fortune, and although most people prefer to think of fortune as a wheel that spins, the fulcrum (that is, seesaw) is a more accurate depiction for most of us, since the worse our own luck becomes, the more likely we are to notice the good fortune of those around us and brood about the injustice of it all.

When things are looking up, there's no point in looking elsewhere" -Agatha Swanburne

Within reason" is not the sort of place one can easily find on a map; in fact, its location may vary considerably from one day to the next.

Many are happy to give advice; few are happy to take it.

Agatha Swanburne - "Morning may not put your problems in a new light, but it at least puts them in a new day.

Listen to the fleshbody," the dropwort retorts. "A mere seventeen turns of the seasons on this ancient earth of ours, and yet he dismisses us.

And this is how otherwise reasonable people end up throwing rocks at one another,

Agatha Swanburne - "All things look different close up.

Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.