Quotes About Perspective

If people think you like them, Charlotte said, well, it can go either way. There's a lot of powerplay in liking and being liked. Such a powerful connection, it's a chance to make the world bigger for someone else. Or smaller. That's always a chance we've got.

Then I wondered why on earth would anyone ever stand in the world as if standing in the cornucopic middle of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon but inside a tiny white-painted rectangle about the size of a single space in a car park, refusing to come out of it, and all around her or him the whole world, beautiful, various, waiting?

Thank you for having me, death. Please excuse me, must get back to it, life.

So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.

the whole point of Bagatelle is that you trifle with the stories that people think are set in stone.

Whole worlds open up when we start a conversation.

Sometimes I like to compare people who don't like women to vegetarians." "Interesting analogy, and I do like the way your mind works, so lay it on me." He opened the door and waved her in. "If God had meant for people to be vegetarians, a good steak wouldn't taste so divine. Following that line of thinking, neither would a woman.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents—our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.

In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.

It's always nicer, I think, to be a big frog in a little puddle than to be an unrecognised croaker in a great, big pool.

Experience is never at bargain price.

Maeniel felt this was why all the great sages never wrote anything down. In the final analysis, scriptures are futile things, dependent as they are on the intentions of the interpreter. All too often too literal a mind can lead human students into strange follies. Sometimes it is better to allow the searchers to try to plumb the depths of the great mystery on their own and accept that not every one of those taking the road will see the same end.

Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever now!

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

She read Housekeeping, which Heidi loved because the odd people were the good people; The Handmaid's Tale, which she understood was terrifying even if the details were fuzzy; Giovanni's Room, which made her sigh, because people were so stubborn; The Professor's House, which she loved for the spooky dress form and Tom's trip to the old Southwest; and Anywhere But Here, which was Maud's favorite, because it starred a girl.

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

All loss is gain. Since I have become so near-sighted I see no dust nor squalor, and therefore conceive of myself as living in splendor.

We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.

Je reste optimiste tout en me préparant au pire, maman, ça te semble bien comme compromis ?

We are surrounded by story.