Quotes About Perspective

Nisam se nimalo sramio svojih poslova jer shva?am ono što o?ito gotovo nitko drugi ne razumije: da je vrlo mala razlika izme?u posla u visokoj zelenoj staklenoj zgradi na Aveniji Park i skupljanja sme?a u parku, tako mala da jedva da i postoji osim u ljudskoj mašti. Zapravo, možda je uop?e i nema.

Your throat tightens up and your eyes get wet as you watch their faces go from stony to sad, and it's all kind of moving and sweet except that you're not completely there—a part of you is a few feet away, or above, thinking, Good, they'll forgive you, they won't desert you, and the question is, which one is really "you," the one saying and doing whatever it is, or the one watching?

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them.

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.

All lies are just truths served more palatably.

Each minute seemed like hours and hours. But then the years passed by like days.

That was the last time I saw Carol. I didn't want to be told I had to be a woman. What I wanted from her was the mystery to a solution.

If you've never experienced a sense of dysphoria with your own body, all I can say is, Lucky you. But just because you have not experienced this yourself does not mean it is not real in the hearts of others.

I learned the terrible truth that as we morph from self to self over time, the love that one self has sworn can seem unfathomable to another.

Sorry," I said. "They're great, but you know. The world doesn't revolve around breasts." "Listen to you!" Curly shouted. "Of course the world revolves around breasts! What else would it revolve around?

a memoir is meant to be an impression of life, and not a photograph.

Having an opinion about transsexuality is about as useful as having and opinion on blindness. You can think whatever you like about it, but in the end, your friend it still blind and surely deserves to see.

Lincoln's height, saying she'll need to "take a ladder to get to Abraham's bosom." (In later years, Lincoln would turn their fourteen-inch height difference into a joke; they were, he'd say, "the long and the short

I don't have this fantasy about marriage anymore. Everyone says it takes hard work. Well, it kind of does - and I'm much more pragmatic about romance than I used to be.

In order to be a good help on someone's journey toward transformation, you need to understand the world as he sees the world, not as you see him.

Sometimes you stop seeing what the person is to the world. You only see what the person is to you.

When had I stopped disparaging my parents' way of life and had instead begun to covet it?

all her hates were merely fears turned around

If we regard vision itself as an embodied, enactive, and, in specific ways, imaginatively endowed process, there is no contradiction in recognizing at the same time that we can learn, through painting, to see differently, and that we rely on our stable, biologically grounded capacities in so doing.

From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is.

If you happen to be a woman, all problems are female problems.

For years, struggling to raise the daughter she'd expected to have, she had failed to see the one she'd gotten.

It's just like Darren to worry about poor people in China while giving no thought to poor people in America, who need Walmart because they can't afford to shop anywhere else—a losers' club Rich feels, eternally, on the brink of joining, if he hasn't already.