Perspective Quotes
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
"He said, 'It's all in your head,' and I said, 'So's everything,' but he didn't get it"
"The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside."
"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly"
"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
"Some love stories aren't epic novels, some are short stories. But that doesn't make them any less filled with love."
"There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another."
"Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees but thinking what no one else has thought."
"We need to teach our daughters the difference between a man who flatters her and a man who compliments her, a man who spends money on her and a man who invests in her, a man who views her as property and a man who views her properly, a man who lusts after her and a man who loves her, a man who believes he's a gift to women, and a man who believes she's a gift to him"
"In the end, everything is seen to be perfect "
"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand "
"The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power"
"Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand"
"I am afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning "
"The light is the same as it always was"
"You can't just take something, put it in a different context and expect it to be funny"
"Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it."
"I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart."
"Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything."
"To understand is to forgive"