Quotes About Perspective

Those who say life is a glorious blessing are right. Those who say it is endlessly cruel are also right.

I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was exactly the right word to describe it. It was John's life that was over, not mine.

Oh, what I want to do is hand my life over to someone else. That's all. And they could rearrange everything into something that would make sense.

Already I've seen that when you're pulled away from your normal routine, it's as though air and sunlight come into your brain and do a little housecleaning.

little disappointments seem like paper cuts; they can bother you more than the big things do.

You have so much love to give! But I feel like you're all the time digging in the tomato bin, saying, 'Where are the apples?' 

I throw sticks for him, and it comes to me that it is a miracle I am able to do this: use my arm, full strength. Follow the course of the stick clearly. Walk without fatigue or pain. Assume, with blind confidence, that I will be able to do this tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. Spend an afternoon with someone who has been told their number is up, and you will will regard everything you do later that day with grateful wonder. I mean, even laundry.

She thinks it was Margaret Atwood who said that wanting to meet a writer because you like their work was like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. So

you think that your pushing me so hard for something you wanted made me kind of necessarily resist it? Would you admit that, would you say that you pushed way too hard?

too. So you see that all my big mistake did was to make for a better party because that's how mistakes are, they make for a kind of relaxation, at least on the part of those not making them.

false vision, an unconscious surrender to seeing things another way.

history is shaped by the belief systems of those who made it.

I don't know why I can't stop crying. Too much good news lately, I guess. Bad news I can handle. I expect bad news. I've dealt with bad news all my life. Good news makes me cry.

don't know why I can't stop crying. Too much good news lately, I guess. Bad news I can handle. I expect bad news. I've dealt with bad news all my life. Good news makes me cry.

Working in the garden shows me the naturalness of it all, helps me to see that as much as I might resist the notion, I'm only one part of a bigger picture.

Abby was saying that all her illness had done was to make her love Link and Daddy more . And appreciate everything more. And to understand , in a way she never had before, that death was a natural part of life, just like the seasons in nature. And everybody's job was to love life while you had it and never to take anything for granted. It was hard to remember to do that, but it was worth it to try.

when you are aware you are dying, the path narrows, and there is room eventually for only one person—you, not distracted by anything else and therefore able to see all that couldn't be seen before. And that this can be such a great gift that you shiver inside at the taking of it.

Change the question, you know?

Marriage is a funny thing. It only really makes sense to the ones who are in it together, and not even always then.

That's the Jesus truth. It's a wide, wide world. Sooner you lift up your gaze from your own self, sooner you know that.

He'd never been the materialistic type, anyway. As evidenced by the fact that, currently, he slept in a tent and drove a mustang. The real kind of mustang, lower case, and not the upper-case car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

Rich women live at such a distance from life that very often they never see their money — the Queen, they say, for instance, never carries a purse.