Quotes About Perspective

Realistically, being positive isn't always being realistic.

If you're always trying to impress me, how come you don't take out the trash?" The look on his face was priceless. He blurted out in undisguised bewilderment, "That would impress you?

You have a good argument, Karen. And, would you be willing to consider this from another point of view?

Dan begrijp je maar al te goed waarom je nergens een volwassene ziet rondspringen die zegt: 'Joepie, ik ben een loonslaaf! Wat heb ik toch een pret!' - David (Claire's vader)

Jij bent echt anders. Je zit als het ware in je eigen wereldje opgesloten en bekijkt ons vanaf de zijlijn maar je raakt er nooit echt bij betrokken. Je lijkt wel zo'n antropoloog die ons als een primitieve stam bestudeert. Daar krijgen mensen de kriebels van. - Donna (tegen Claire)

Eh, pap? Dat over lemmings, dat is een misverstand. Ze gooien zich helemaal niet over de kliffen de oceaan in. - Claire

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact.

But all these truths, woven together, might give us a picture of what is true. That is why it's important to know all the different stories. We can never see all the sky at once.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

There are moments in my life—just a few of them—when the present and the future seem to bleed into each other and I see everything from the strangest perspective, understanding before I even know what's happening that from here on in, nothing will be the same.

Harris Blanchard was a terrible human being. But he was also a kid like Emily was, with a mother and a father. And his death hasn't changed my life for the better. It hasn't made Emily any more alive.

Grounded her for two months. Her dad thought it excessive. We smoked pot when we were that age, Matt said, missing the point. Yes, we smoked pot when we were fourteen, but Emily wasn't us. She was better than us.

As though, after five years, a light's been switched on, and how Camille Gardener feels is the only thing that matters

The day will only be as good as the thoughts you have.

No one can ever truly know what is in another man's heart.

We decided to become developmental psychologists and study children because there aren't any Martians. These brilliant beings with the little bodies and big heads are the closest we can get to a truly alien intelligence (even if we may occasionally suspect that they are bent on making us their slaves.)

Cuando eres joven deseas cosas, cuando eres mayor deseas desearlas.

I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.

Rather than following a [genealogical] 'line', I find myself drawn to all the people I encounter, including those who, only by the most obtuse reckoning, can be thought of as relatives. Every life deserves telling; none is without drama and change.

Stories are the way you look at the world. . . . stories are your salvation.

What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.

for the skeptic no proof is possible, and for the "believer" no proof is necessary.

To relate to God's word this way requires us to get beyond using the Bible merely as a textbook to study, a book of proof texts for arguments, or a promise book to which we occasionally turn. Cherishing God's word requires us to seek the perspective of the psalmist who, distancing himself from the proud and the scoffers of his day, says of the man who is walking with God, "His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night" (Psalm 1:2).

Even a lifetime of grief is only a little while in light of Eternity.