Quotes About Perspective

MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.

To be human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

The key to happiness wasn't being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Regrets ignore chronology. They float around.

Human beings, as a rule, simply don't accept things that don't fit their worldview.

She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."' 'You know Thoreau?

Every second of every day we are entering a new universe. And we spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad.

History was, is, a one-way street. You have to keep walking forwards, but you don't always need to look ahead. Sometimes you can just look around and be happy right where you are.

To enjoy life, we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries. To live on a human scale. To focus on the few things we can do, rather than the millions of things we can't. To not crave parallel lives. To find a smaller mathematics. To be a proud and singular one. An indivisible prime.

No one is ever completely right about anything. Anywhere.

Tragedy is just comedy that hasn't come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.

To see something, you have to believe in it. Really believe it. That's the first elf rule. You can't see something you don't believe in. Now try your hardest and see if you can see what you have been looking for.

It is not the length of life that matters. It's the depth. But while burrowing, keep the sun above you.

In your mind, change the name of every day to Saturday. And change the name of work to play.

Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

We only know what we perceive. Everything we experience is ultimately just our perception of it. "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called 'The World'. No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds. We read it in our own way. But also: we can, to a degree, choose what to read. We have to work out what about the world makes us feel sad or scared or confused or ill or calm or happy.

The bottom of the valley never provides the clearest view.

Never underestimate the big importance of small things,' Mrs Elm said. 'You must always remember that.

All a writer can do is provide a match, and hopefully a dry one. The reader has to strike the flame into being.

I'm having a pretty shit time too, if we're doing the Misery Olympics.