Quotes About Perspective

At first I thought I'd walked into a tree, but then that tree became a person, who was also recovering on the ground, and then I saw that it was her and she saw that it was me...

At first it made me angry, but then it made me sad, and then it made me so grateful, and then it made me angry again, and I went through these feelings hundreds of times, stopping on each for only a moment and then moving to the next.

I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

Sitting with her now, rehearsing the horrible conversation, Jacob wondered if maybe, all those years, he had misunderstood the spaces surrounding Julia: her quiet, her steps back. Maybe they weren't buffers of defense, but of the most extreme humility, the purest generosity. What if she wasn't withdrawing, but beckoning? Or both at the same time? Withdrawing and beckoning? And more to the point: making a world for their children, even for Jacob.

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes (those we need to see dim objects) are on the edges of the region we normally use for focusing. Eating animals has an invisible quality. Thinking about dogs, and their relationship to the animals we eat, is one way of looking askance and making something invisible visible.

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children and children are always smarter than their parents.

I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live my life.

They had never seen one another from afar. They had never known the deepest intimacy, that closeness attainable only with distance

Als we op een dag een levensvorm tegenkomen die machtiger en intelligenter is dan wij zelf, en die soort zou ons zien zoals wij vissen zien, wat zouden we dan als argument aanvoeren om niet te worden opgegeten?

se nada importa, não há nada a salvar

I'm sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.

It is a shame that we have to live but it is a tragedy that we get to live only one life.

It's better to lose something than never to have had

I yearned to press my ear to the door so that I could at minimum hear. But I knew that my side was on the outside with the hero. Part of me hated this, and part of me was grateful, because once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

The less a citizen knew, the more adamantly he or she argued.

It's better to lose than never to have had. I lost something I never had. You had everything.

As we drove, I imagined we were standing still and the world was coming toward us.

SvÄ›t je tak veliký a tak malý, v jediné chvíli jsme byli blízko i daleko.

Nevadí mi, když se nÄ›kdo usmívá na m?j ú?et, na tom ú?tu není skoro nic.

But it's turtles all the way down!

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering

Am sa-mi fac desteptatorul la sase dimineata. - Sase? am interogat eu. Daca vreti sa stiti de ce am interogat, pai asta e din cauza ca pentru mine sase nu inseamna foarte devreme dimineata, ci foarte intarziat noaptea.

In adancul inimii lor, tinerii sunt mai singuri decat batranii. Am citit asta undeva, intr-o carte si mi-a ramas in cap. Poate ca e adevarat. Poate ca nu. Mai curand, tinerii si batranii sunt singuri in feluri diferite, fiecare in felul sau...