Quotes About Perspective

Amy, this may sound like a cop-out, but I watch so little television," he apologized and then added firmly, "and I don't mean to be elitist about that. There are members of my family who watch a lot of television and get a lot from it. But I would much rather read.

If parents can remember what it was like to be a child, they are going to be much more empathic with their own children.

Frankly, I think that after we die, we have this wide understanding of what's real. And we'll probably say, 'Ah, so that's what it was all about.' Fred Rogers

Maybe we make too much of a big deal about being happy. Maybe we should all just find a way to be content with life, you know? Because that's not a bad place to be. Content.

The same five letters can be rearranged to express my daily sense of—and relationship to—time. First from the viewpoint of childhood, then young adulthood, and now, the present. ACRES of it. . CARES about it. RACES against it .

Then again, Einstein (pretty good at math) was also quite clear when he concluded, There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Sometimes the small dreams were all a person needed to live.

Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.

I know. But maybe that's what growing up gets you. You get better. You stop waiting for the bad stuff to happen and maybe enjoy the good, you know?

If I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful for you.

Oh—and you need to work on making my opinion more important than Josh's, too. I know it's a stretch—he's your most intimate relationship to date, but when you're balls deep in my ass, I'd prefer you not be wondering if it counts as a workout.

Yes. You couldn't make anyone else happy. He tried to tell himself that, and drink through the buzzing little voice saying that, for a few short weeks, he actually had made someone else happy. And Owen had made him happy too.

Some nice lady came over here with food for us all. She claimed to be your mother. I don't believe it--you're an asshole, and she's good people.

You're not even looking at the view, Xan." "I'm looking at all I need to.

Boy, you don't know it, but you really are still a baby. You're amazingly fucking young. Don't write off the rest of your life like that, okay? There's some stunning, gorgeous moments waiting for you. Don't make a plan that'll make you miss out on them.

He was starting to learn that you didn't really know what it meant unless you felt the broken glass of worry that went with it.

guess," he said thoughtfully. "I mean… it's not like… it's not like he's going to be anything other than Deacon, right?

Yeah, but I didn't like him and you still did it!

Because you were saying them about somebody's son," he snarled. "Why not your own?

There's Tom, Dick, That Guy Over There, and Some Other Asshole—that's not the point.

It was like the time he'd driven a friend's MG in college—doable but not fun.

Such a simple concept. But then, the withy reed was always so in awe of the oak, it never occurred to it to grow.

Funny, how some of the most important people of your life can be dismissed as inconsequential, just because you believe the bullshit they've spent their entire lives selling.

all Crick knew was that when he got to the ground, the whole fucking world seemed to be eighteen-year-olds calling him Second-goddamned-Lieutenant.