Quotes About Perspective

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

An old man seating down is able to see far better than a child standing on top of a tree.

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelingsóadmiration or pity.

It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.

I am crazy, I know, Thérèse. But who is not?

Qu'est-ce que veut dire voyager? Changer de lieu? Pas du tout! En voyageant, on change aussi ses opinions et ses préjugés.

Si cinquante millions de gens disent une sottise, ça n'en reste pas moins une sottise.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

Does our reading life balance or subvert our waking life?

Each child's story is worthy of telling. There shouldn't be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing

whatever problem you have with someone, project yourself into the other person and see it from their point of view.

I tried to tell them about the dating process because I'm single now and how horrible it is and how many foolish experiences I had had dating. So I was really selling him hard, but the whole time he really wanted me!

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.