Quotes About Perspective

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy.

I'm Homer, the blind brother.

I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

We had a joke, Langley and I: Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

if a good sign is so important you can just as soon make one up and fool yourself that way.

They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg. Whichever way it began--chicken-or-egg, team-or-The Souls--it definitely ended with an egg. Definitely, an egg.

There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it.

She thanked me again and then said, ''Some people say 'God is in the details.' Others say it's the Devil.'' Margaret replied, 'Maybe it depends on who's reporting the details.

Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home." ? E. L. Konigsburg, From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

I never really look past my eyes. That way I always feel pretty. Windows of the soul, you know.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

All scripture was written for us, and for our learning ; but they are not all addressed to us, or written concerning us.

Hey, don't be mean, 'cause remember: wherever you go. . . there you are.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

You have so much to learn from your enemies.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.

Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.