Quotes About Perspective

I don't know why it was a tragedy, the world.

It is an accident that you are well-off, powerful, and content. Would I feel stronger if I saw you weak?

you need to know that our interpreta- tion of the past can't be right.

I want to sing in a voice you don't own, that you've never heard and judged.

Netuno introduz tendências, mas Urano produz mudanças abruptas. [...] O importante é lembrar que [em Urano] é imperativo ver as coisas a partor de um nível diferente ou sofrer as consequências.

O mapa astral não é o território, e você não pode comer um menu.

Food simply isn't important to me.

Occasionally, when trapped by memories, I would mistake change for loss, and grieve...

It was probable, I thought, that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me, and that the whole world was mad.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Storytelling itself is an activity, not an object. Stories are the closest we can come to shared experience….Like all stories, they are most fundamentally a chance to ride around inside another head and be reminded that being who we are and where we are, and doing what we're doing, is not the only possibility. —Harriet McBryde Johnson, Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life (2006)

A brain injury is a particularly hard injury to have because it changes who you are in ways that other injuries don't, since it affects how you think, act, and respond. It's hard to talk about that loss and grief with people who have never experienced it.

No, I'm the human here. I'm the life at stake. I'm the one with fingernails, who feels pain. Me".

From John's perspective, the true value of people seeing him was that people would then be positioned to see through him and gaze at Jesus. By

No matter how we rationalize, God will sometimes seem unfair from the perspective of a person trapped in time. . . . Not until history has run its course will we understand how 'all things work together for good.' Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse." — PHILIP YANCEY

Some things just have to be believed to be seen." —PHILIP YANCEY

Daddy got mad when people made assumptions about him, but I liked it. It made me feel someone wanted to know me. Even if they were wrong, it didn't matter. It mattered only that they were trying.

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

Before thinking about what you are going to say, think about what I am saying.

I'm making a statement about conformity." For or against?" That's for the viewer to decide. I'm an artist, not a preacher." Agnes Phiffer & Osbert Monk in The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn