Quotes About Perspective

you're always going to be too young for something important to you, too old for something else, and the timing is just not going to be right for a third set of things. That's life, and you can make yourself crazy by dwelling on that. Or you can figure out what you are the right age for, and what the timing is right for, and celebrate those things. Where do you suppose happiness lies?

But you can't ignore dense people-they're not unarmed; they're armed differently.

La diferencia que existe entre los dioses y los demonios depende sobre todo del lado en que uno se encuentre en ese momento.

I'm not really sure how we've arrived at this ridiculous juncture, and I'd be a great deal happier if we weren't pointing these things at one another, wouldn't you?

Ah!" Callie said, seizing on this, "what we expect of him. Couldn't that be the problem right there? Have we tried to attune ourselves to his needs? Have we taken the trouble to understand where he's coming from?

People should draw lessons from the past, but those who look constantly behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backsides

The city and the outback were separated by a distance greater than miles. Then,

Let the Rabbit see the warren

In political situations, we should be careful not to assume "everyone is wrong" and "just compromise.

This is what fundamentalist love to do. They persuade themselves that they have "God's absolute point of view" and that their mission is to bring everyone else into line "with their God." In so doing, they become the Catholic Taliban and justify their "moral terrorism" as somehow required by God himself. This is why, as shown above, Pope Francis calls them "godless.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

An artist's job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you. (Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night)

If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people, and if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.

Affluence is always relative, depending on where you are on the food chain.

People pick the stories they want to be true and they believe them. It doesn't make the stories true.

War will change people.

Rumors are as important as anything. Even if they're not true, they end up turning people into who they are.

I am happy with my life how it is for once. And I don't ever want to forget that. That's all that matters to me.

I'm a storyteller, and it's a storyteller's job to take on other people's voices. To present as real a picture of things as possible. Every storyteller will write a different story.

Characters are supposed to have understandable motivations. The reader is supposed to be able to relate to them.

Maybe it will be something exclusively for me, to remind myself that believing in ridiculous things isn't always so bad.

Here's the thing about believing: sometimes it's a question of will. You work at it. You keep telling yourself to believe in something, and eventually your brain surrenders and lets the belief in. Sometimes it's like a switch being flipped, an overnight thing, a wake up and look at the ceiling and say THIS IS HOW THE WORLD WORKS NOW AND I GUESS I'M OKAY WITH IT sort of thing.