Quotes About Perspective

Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave?

In this way he used her as the North Star on a journey where you always want to go south. It was helpful, aligning himself in this way. It gave him something to tune to, like a violin to a piano.

Paul Slovic, another moral philosopher, agrees. He says empathy is a poor tool for improving the lives of others, because the human mind is bad at thinking about, and empathizing with, millions or billions of individuals

We choose our reality, you see, just as we choose our god.

Whether you believe you're suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome or that 9/11 was an inside job, the World Wide Web exists to tell you you're right. You are always right.

You need hope to form a thought. It takes—I don't know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other?

In the absence of facts, we tell ourselves stories.

You need hope to form a thought. It takes—I don't know—optimism to speak, to engage in conversation. Because, really, what's the point of all this communicating? What difference does it really make what we say to each other? Or what we do, for that matter?

In the absence of facts, he thinks, we tell ourselves stories.

This is who we had become by then, people who gathered in the rain, arguing over whether or not they were getting wet.

Deep down, it seemed, many Americans were convinced that a gain for others was a loss for themselves.

You stay home and raise daughters, who grow up and get jobs and then feel pity for you, their stay-at-home mothers.

What I believe is irrelevant. In the last year, belief in Bigfoot rose from eleven percent to twenty-five percent. Here's another figure: thirty percent of Americans believe that aliens have visited Earth in the not-too-distant past.

Don't you see? they cried. All we have to do is change.

The only thing that can change who we are is life.

These days when he thinks about happiness and contentment, he thinks in terms of milligrams.

if our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Jimmy Buffett, Mr. Margaritaville, said that if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

This isn't a tragedy. It's just non-fiction.

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.

the way they make you fell does not mater