Quotes About Perspective

If life gives you lemons lets be honest you probably just found lemons

I DON'T have EX's! I have Y's. Like 'Y the hell did I date you?!' -Kevin Hart

i gotta stop saying how stupid could you be? I'm beginning to feel like people are taking as a challenge

Life Lessons FROM LOSS If you experience loss, it doesn't means you lost. it means you've been blessed with an opportunity to take a moment, realize how special someone or something has been to you, and go through new doors that were closed to you before.

Just because they don't hear the song (of the world) doesn't mean it's silent.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

Sometimes we just need someone to show us something we can't see for ourselves, and then we change forever.

It didn't matter, though, how weakly sentimental the catalyst had been, only that he'd been receptive to it.

Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them... You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

Rahim Khan laughed. "Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Look at me, Mariam.' Reluctantly, Mariam did. Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.

Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what does not belong to you. You do this knowingly.

You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.