Quotes About Perspective

Never assume that you know the mind of another.

No man is worth the whole world.

You kept this from me." "I didn't include you," he corrected. As if that made a difference.

Freedom is where you find it," my father often said when I complained. Papa had a way of seeing the world exactly as he wanted. "The greatest prison is in our mind.

Not all Americans talk like me. The states in America are kind of like your countries over here,

A veces la vida que imaginamos no dura tanto como creemos.

One day you may feel differently," she replies. "Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think.

had hoped. "Can you tell us how to make a man fall in love with us?" Kit's expression turned wary. "I don't think so. No one could. It is different for each person." "Is it?" Belle asked in an innocent tone. "'Yet there are some things that seem to be commonly attractive to all

Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.

I've spent my entire adult life working and climbing side-by-side with men, so trust me when I say that most male stupidity is a result of one of two things. It's either their egos, or it's that junk in their pants.

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feel true to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

Life is, once again, very interesting, tho' it should always be, and it will be if I make it so.

It turns out that to be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.

One day I have a revelation. 'I think we're actually quite compatible,' I tell him. 'You're irritable, and I'm irritating.

Perhaps he was recalling the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote in the nineteenth century: "When we are ascending the hill of life, death is not visible: it lies down at the bottom of the other side. But once we have crossed the top of the hill, death comes in view—death, which, until then, was known to us only by hearsay.")

The seminal journey of the forties is from "everyone hates me" to "they don't really care.

French moms often ask me where I plan to deliver, but never how. They don't seem to care. In France, the way you give birth doesn't situate you within a value system or define the sort of parent you'll be. It is, for the most part, a way of getting your baby safely from your uterus into your arms.

Mommy, I'm not going to have your American childhood, " she says. "I don't want to wake up at seven a.m. and make bracelets. I just don't. Accept it.

French parents don't just think these separations are good for parents. They also genuinely believe that they're important for kids, who must understand that their parents have their own pleasures. "Thus the child understands that he is not the center of the world, and this is essential for his development," the French parenting guide Votre Enfant explains.

Thompson, who has a French mother and an English father, points out that kids often get very angry at their parents when parents block them. She says English-speaking parents often interpret this anger as a sign that the parents doing something wrong. But she warns that parents should't mistake angering a child for bad parenting.

The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn't want to go out of doors no more. And since they was all cooped up inside their cold houses, they needed something to do, so some other feller invented television. Now, you tell me one good thing ever come from them two contraptions." He paused. "You can't, can you?

Look at things the way they are and not the way you wish they was and you'll get along all right.

Gathering up all the stories on the continuum...I am inclined to think that we should stop calling nonmonogamy a marital problem and call it a marital culture instead.

A cynic is just a wounded romantic.