Quotes About Perspective

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

What's outside the border when you're inside it?" "What's the border when you're inside it?" "What's the border when someone is outside it?" "Why can't the person inside see the person outside?

The things that disturb us at midnight are negligible at 9 a.m.

your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you. When

then in that moment that I'd begun to love him. Because he didn't see the world like I saw the world. He didn't see the traps. Because he made me rethink even simple words like disgusting or beautiful.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

Qué es un mapa sino una forma de destacar ciertas cosas y disimular otras?

Everything around you—your office, the conversation in the corridors, the view from Beyond Reach—has acquired a kind of compelling sheen to it, a clarity that comes from knowing you will soon be gone.

Be', dipende dai soffitti alti, no? Vedi cose che non esistono. E le cose che vedi sembrano altre cose. Un uccello può essere un pipistrello. Un pipistrello può essere una busta di plastica che vola. Così va il mondo. Vedi una cosa per un'altra. Uccelli-foglie. Pipistrelli-uccelli. Ombre fatte di luci. Rumori accidentali che sembrano più significativi. È sempre così, dovunque vai.

That took less hubris than thinking this was a message from on high.

What can you do when your five senses are not enough? Because I still couldn't truly see it here, any more than I had seen it under the microscope, and that's what scared me the most. Why couldn't I see it?

But when you can't escape the seconds, when you are sure you are going to die before you can get free, some things don't mean very much anymore.

You tell yourself this is no less or more real than bowling at Chipper's.[...] That this moment is the same as every other moment, that it makes no difference to the atoms, to the air, to the creature whose walls breathe all around you.