Quotes About Perspective

Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story. I

Throwing a tantrum feels good because you think you are ruining everyone's good time when you feel your very worst. But the truth is, you're not ruining their good time, you're just giving them another good story.

But my secret is: even though I wish I could be thin, and that I could have the ease of the lifestyle that I associate with being thin, I don't wish for it with all of my heart. Because my heart is reserved for way more important things.

but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life.

and I went to Dartmouth to pursue my love of white people and North Face parkas.

People sometimes sweetly say that I have "child-bearing hips," but what they really mean is that I have hips that will definitely knock over your drink if you are sitting next to me on a plane and I have to get up to use the bathroom.

even though deep down I know that if there is an afterlife, she's a pretty much open-and-shut case for hell.

After all these years with friends who are five ten or taller, I have come to carry myself with the confidence of a tall person. It's all in the head. It works out.

Luckily, I was not born a white man.1 I was born a socially anxious Indian woman.

At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.

Dont regret what you dont have in life be greatful for what you have in life and dont miss what you dont have.

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

How come we kept celebrating things that made me feel bad?

When admiring a painting, Don't examine the paint. When meeting an artist, Don't look at the brush.

One side of a ridge is cold and foggy, The other is hot and dry. Just by choosing where you stand, You alter your destiny.

A strong perspective is the root of wisdom.

I don't live by the fuckin Dow Jones anymore. I live by the Tao, Jones.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are.

We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling.

We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

It's important to remember that even the biggest person was, at one time, very, very small.