Quotes About Perspective

In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself. There is nothing new it needs to notice about your bedroom. No potential external threats, just internal ones. By forcing yourself into a new physical space, preferably in a different country, you end up inevitably focusing a bit more on the world outside your head

Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

How can we live in a mad world without going mad ourselves?

There was no such thing as impossible. I knew that, because I also knew that everything was impossible, and so the only possibilities in life were impossibilities.

An annoying thing about depression is that thinking about life is inevitable. Depression makes thinkers out of all of us

There is no rejection, there is only redirection. You can have everything and feel nothing.

I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.

if you see magic often enough it starts to look normal.

The website also adds that "people who can admire a beautiful model but say 'I could never look like her but it doesn't bother me too much' are the people who are least likely to fall victim to problems with food." Maybe there is a lesson for all of us here: in that disconnect between the images we see and the selves we are. We need to build a kind of immune system of the mind, where we can absorb but not get infected by the world around us.

And death only happens to people who have been living. There were infinitely more people who had never been alive. I wanted to be one of those people.

The values that cause us to want more than we have. To worship work above play. To compare the worst bits of ourselves with the best bits of other people.

The longer you live, the more you realise that nothing is fixed. Everyone will become a refugee if they live long enough. Everyone would realise their nationality means little in the long run. Everyone would see their worldviews challenged and disproved. Everyone would realise that the thing that defines a human being is being a human.

So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.

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.

Reading isn't important because it helps to get you a job. It's important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you're given.

The sky isn't more beautiful if you have perfect skin. Music doesn't sound more interesting if you have a six-pack. Dogs aren't better company if you're famous. Pizza tastes good regardless of your job title. The best of life exists beyond the things we are encouraged to crave.

Because if you believe in them as fact, you are saying the thing that every unpopular scientific breakthrough in history has said." "Which is what?" "That humans are not at the center of things.

ROY NEARY: Just close your eyes and hold your breath and everything will turn real pretty. —Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other.

?i-a dat seama c? , oricât de sincer ai fi în via?? , oamenii v?d adev?rul doar dac? este suficient de aprope de realitatea lor.

Not everything is a war, sweetheart.' 'Of course it is

Don't believe in good or bad, or winning and losing, or victory and defeat, or up and down. At your lowest and at your highest, whether you are happy or despairing or calm or angry, there is a kernel of you that stays the same. That is the you that matters.

Sometimes regrets aren't based on fact at all" ? Matt Haig, The Midnight Library