Quotes About Perspective

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

A much loved person value nothing about the feelings untill he/she loose everything. They feel the love.

Trying to look through someone's life is an equivalent of looking at the mirror. You see nothing but the reflected image of yourself

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

Sunny. Proves rich or poor doesn't matter, if you ask me. Some people are just born happy. I think that's the luckiest thing. If you're sunny inside, you never have to worry about the weather.

If you're sunny inside, you never have to worry about the weather.

Perhaps a woman has a different kind of measuring stick. For when it might be acceptable, or even necessary, to commit a murder.

Nothing in life unfolds the way you think it will, does it?

I nodded, not yet realizing that as far as the world was concerned, what was best for the baby could mean something entirely different from what was best for me.

But Finbarr smiled differently, not out of amusement, but happiness. As if he liked the world and enjoyed being in it.

A young person can't know her life, what it will be or how it will unfold. When you grow older, you gain a sense that hardships occupy particular moments in time, which by and by will pass. But when you're young, a single moment seems like the whole world. It feels permanent.

People can certainly be beastly about the things that affect them least, can't they?

Gratitude is the intention to count your blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

Look, Candida, I don't want to pee on your picnic...

What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed

He thought of Darwin sleeping out on the pampas during his Beagle trip, a middle-class white kid travelling the world, the first of the backpackers. It was only afterwards, really, that he had made any sense of what he had seen. Alex wondered what, in the fullness of time, he himself would make sense of, what small, crucial detail might be lodging itself in his brain that would shake his life to its foundations.

If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.

A feminist perspective recognizes that the hierarchical organizing of the world around gender is key to maintaining social order;

Huelga decir que no solo las «mujeres» pueden adoptar el feminismo como una perspectiva política y una forma de vida, pero los varones que elijan hacerlo deben posicionarse en contra de los privilegios que de otra manera podrían haber dado por sentados.

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.

Not everything children experience has to be put on their level in order to do them good. Some things must be. But not everything.

Have you considered," Rob said slowly, "how each faith claims that it alone has God's heart and ear? We, you, and Islam—each vows it is the true religion. Can it be that we're all three wrong?" "Perhaps we're all three right," Mirdin said.

Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.