Quotes About Perspective

many of the "bad guys" were simply lost, addicted, and hungry. He had learned that many of the "good guys" were bullies, excited about using their power simply because they could.

Some adjustments you made for life because you wanted to have a life.

under the heartbreak blue sky.

You should," Jefferson said grandly. "It's always a lot easier if you assume the world is wrong and you're right. If you assume the other way around, we may as well pray for the earth to swallow us up because we're not doing jackshit right!

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

Controlla le cose che puoi, così il caos del mondo esterno non sembrerà più così schiacciante.

È come se… non vedessi più le cose a colori, sai? Guardo qualcosa e penso di sapere com'è, e poi penso a come sembrerebbe il mondo senza Deacon, e tutto diventa bianco e nero.

You should be too busy watering your own grass to notice if someone else's is greener.

Opinions are a useless currency

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

People experience books so very differently.

Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.

Cái v?n ?? mà b?n ?ang ph?i ??i ??u ?ó ch?ng thành v?n ?? ?âu. Ch? vì b?n ngh?, "Ð?y là n?i kh? c?a tôi!", "Ð?y là ?i?u mà tôi ph?i gi?i quy?t cho xong". Ð?ng suy ngh? theo chi?u h??ng ?ó n?a, r?i thì ch?ng có v?n ?? nào c?.

Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

Every time she felt her life could not grow stranger, something happened to make her think she had been wrong.

I would rather have a Hemingwayesque failure than a Juhaszian success.

Where the years ahead had once seemed vague and unknowable, amorphous in shape and indeterminable in size, after my mother died I began to see a set of decades stacked neatly in front of me like bricks...When I allowed myself to think of the brevity of the time ahead of me, and the futility of spending any more of it on cooking and mending and gardening, it frightened me so much that I almost couldn't breathe.

Why is it that a worm can regrow most of its body, but we can't replace so much as a finger? I am left with the troubling conclusion that the worm's survival may, in the grand scheme of things, be more important than my own.

EVERY DAY, AMERICANS go out and buy about ten million cut flowers. After all I've seen, that really doesn't sound like much. It works out, on a daily basis, to one flower for every twenty-five people. Another way to look at it: Every man, woman, and child gets fourteen stems a year. That's just over one flower a month. How can anybody get by on one flower a month?

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. —L. H. BAILEY, Manual of Gardening, 1910

Don't bother fighting with your husband over something he's never actually going to do. He'll give up on his own eventually, and then you don't have to be the bad guy.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.