2,376 Quotes About Perspective

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.

Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

For the Earth itself is a blossom, she says,on the star tree,pale with luminousocean leaves.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.