Quotes About Perspective

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

That's the thing, chato. I'm not the one to tell it, and you aren't the one to hear it, but rest assured that it'd be pretty tough to figure out …

El pasado retornaba en oleadas; huracanado pasado de mierda. Ni que fuera tan importante. Ni que valiera para nada más que para estar ahí depositado, sedimentado en la memoria, diciendo que ya no somos los que fuimos.

Maybe you ought to go, Charlie. CHARLIE No, they asked me. I told them I didn't want to go. HELEN It might do you good to have a night out. I know you're upset about the baby... CHARLIE I'm not upset... HELEN Come on, Charlie, I know how you feel. Listen, you don't have to pretend you're excited about having a baby. We weren't figuring on a kid right now, and it's a shock. Listen, I wasn't exactly overjoyed when I began to suspect I was pregnant.

just because a point is well made, doesn't mean it's right.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Poverty consciousness results from wearing … blinders to the abundance of life." — GLENDA GREEN, AMERICAN PAINTER AND AUTHOR

It's pretty easy to be grateful when the sails of life are blowing your way.

can't understand why an optimistic concept sounds so bizarre to most people.

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we humans decide in advance how we're going to experience life, that we choose beforehand what we want to see.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

When we don't stop daily to inventory all the gazillion things going right in our lives, the crazy voices in our heads try to make us their

In fact, in his book Prometheus Rising, Robert Anton Wilson

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." —MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN AUTHOR

Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say 'I've got cancer' and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy?" —

Like sometimes when you go to a movie and you get so lost in the story that when you're walking out of the theater you can't remember anything at all about your own life.

I am walking down the street in Manhattan, Fifth Avenue in the lower sixties, women with shopping bags on all sides. I realize with some horror that for the last fifteen blocks I have been counting how many women have better and how many women have worse figures than I do. Did I say fifteen blocks? I meant fifteen years.

Could a person mourn and be joyful simultaneously? I understood it as the challenge of the twenty-first century. Maybe it was simply what being a grown up meant.

I still don't see how it would make me feel any better to think of the pain in my hip and spine as anything other than my most loyal and valuable companion, the continuous nonvoice in my ear that says, You got out alive and you still get to go.

but for the rest of my own life, I want to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief without

Guenevere brought me a cookie and a big box of Kleenex. She said that choices can't be good or bad. There is only the event and the lessons learned from it.

A photograph tells the story of two lives simultaneously, the one in front of the camera as well as the one behind.

And even though I knew in my head there's nothing a man can do that a woman can't, I also knew in my heart we can't help doing it for different reasons. And just like a man will never understand exactly how a woman feels when she has a baby, or an orgasm, or the reasons why she'll fight so hard to be loved, a woman can't know in what way a man satisfies himself, what question he answers for himself, when he looks right at death.