Quotes About Perspective

My mother raised her eyebrow, and murmured, "And to think I was always worried that you didn't have any friends. I suppose I should have been counting my blessings.

Truth has many facets. Choose the ones that make her happy to be alive instead of the ones that make her want to smack you.

If fourteen people believe they were Cleopatra in a former life, does that mean that Cleopatra had split personality disorder?

Take happiness where you can," he said. "It seldom lasts—'course, neither does sorrow, right?

I don't wear a cross. As a child, I'd had a bad experience with one. Besides, a crucifix was the instrument of Our Lord's death- I don't know why people think a torture device should be a symbol of Christ. Christ was a willing sacrifice, a lamb, not a cross for us to hang ourselves on; or at least that's my interpretation. Maybe other people think of religion and God differently than I do.

Suddenly I don't feel so bad at being rescued by a rabbit

It is proper that men listen to the counsel of women. (Coyote)

As long as I thought what he wanted me to think, he liked it when I thought for myself.

Fewer people die when you are around. These are the facts. Being upset about them don't make them false.

Leslie absorbed that. "If that's so, I peg our Anna at sixteen and her husband at ten thousand and change.

Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Some people, me, get a black eye and other people ask "who beat you up?" Other people, Spielman, get a black eye and other people say "where did they bury the other guy?

Coyote had told me once that changes were neither good nor bad—but brought with them some of both.

Maybe I should have explained matters better when I had him on the phone, but where's the fun in that?

Making him feel horrible isn't what you want." She paused, considered what she said, then modified it. "Unless it is useful for him to feel horrible, of course. Mostly, though, I've found that isn't productive. Men who are miserable can be unpredictable.

The day you take that advice is the day I listen to it from you.

You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it." — Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)

Maybe my mother had been right, and I should have been a lawyer. She always maintained that at least as a lawyer my contrary nature would be an asset.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before - but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

My grandfather always said that if you don't argue, you can't be proved wrong.

you had to trust that the first thing out of a person's mouth was truth. After they have a chance to think about it, they'll change what they say to be more socially acceptable, something they think you'll be happier with, something that will get the results they want.

And there were fringe benefits to following Charles around - the view for one.

Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

I don't like it when I outweigh my men.