Quotes About Perspective

As he rode along William thought about all that he had learned from Moses Amyraut. He saw how pointless it was accumulating so many possessions. A single spark could take them all away. No, he told himself, there were more important things in life than social position and an abundance of possessions for him to strive for.

We don't appreciate the value of humor sometimes.

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.

History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.

we could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words'...

First, you were set up for the situation in which you now find yourself. You never had a chance to "do it right" because you've never experienced what "doing it right" looked like, or felt like. It hasn't been your fault if you have always felt that other people knew some secrets about successful relationships that you didn't know.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even out little corner of it.

Perhaps we are all too small-minded to glimpse creation, even our little corner of it.

The price dip didn't disturb Munger's equanimity. "I'm 76 years of age," he said. "I've been through a number of down periods. If you live a long time, you're going to be out of investment fashion some of the time.

What Helen of Troy did in her spare time and what she was 'really like' are not questions that torture us.

The distinguished dead are clay in the hands of writers, and chance determines the shapes that their characters assume in the books written about them.

Time is so...fluid where I live

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

They should change "Happy New Year" to "Ha Ha! You Think This Year Will Be Different but Don't Fool Yourself—You're Still a Kid.

By the time I get home, I'm still stunned. When Matt won the mountain bike at the church raffle last year, I was happy for him. When his father's friend invited Matt to a Lakers playoff game, I thought that was great too. Why can't he be glad when something good happens to me?

If you don't believe it's elves, that's your problem. I know it's elves.

That is --- we think differently, we now and then see things differently...--- Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.---

I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.