Quotes About Perspective

Uno nods, looks out over his high school football field again. He knows deep down he would never kill himself. He likes being alive. Even if he knows the things that happen to him aren't always good. It doesn't matter. He wants to be alive. And not only that, he wants to see who he is. Like somebody from the outside can.

Sometimes when you're surrounded by dirt...you're a better witness for what's beautiful.

He wondered how his nana always found beautiful where he never even thought to look.

Truth is not a fixed thing. It evolves and morphs and inverts. What is true today may not be true tomorrow.

That's the weirdest thing, by the way. That every person you come across lays down in a bed, under the covers, and closes their eyes at night. Cops, teachers, parents, hot girls, pro ballers, everybody. For some reason it makes people seem so much less real when I look at them.

How overwhelming the world could seem when you were thrust into the guts of it. How little power you realized human beings actually had compared with the earth.

His key insight was that yearning, or wishing things were different than they are, is the root of all suffering, and that letting go of this desire is the secret to happiness.

As with post-traumatic growth, it's not the scare itself but the subsequent perspective shift that enhances gratitude.

how can fear ruin my experience if I embrace it as an integral part of the experience?

I've talked to girls who were so blasé about their orgasm. Like it was another thing to do, like I was making it too mythical, too big. Like it wasn't important. Fuck you. This is huge for me. I am God now.

Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same." --Reverend Lovejoy

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

NEWSFLASH Lisa, Bart is not a horse!" —Homer Simpson

Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can't exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

It was interesting, she mused to herself, how life sometimes simply gave you a whole new perspective by waiting around long enough for you to see it.

The key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person. You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.

She realised that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away. Skyscrapers Made out Of Words.