History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

I love objectivity when mine.

It’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

It’s not how I take tragic news but how I make tragic views that unscrews me.

In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.

It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.

Despite our human intelligence, we are very much like our friends in the wild; the world we live in is a survival of the fittest. But to this I say, let the fittest survive! Survival...

t’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you’re dyslexic like me you can’t tell the difference.

[…] nobody anywhere seemed to be willing to ponder for a moment the possibility that a human being who refused to participate, who refused to speak or listen, who failed to ‘interact with his peer...

And I understand now, maybe not completely, but more, that in times of overwhelming joy, immobile sadness, hysterical laughter, absolute fear, and sometimes just perfect quiet there is Life. Real Life. And it really is...

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

All too often I try to skate away from the things I’m afraid of and things I don’t like and am unwilling to accept. I’m selfish and difficult to handle. I give my men cause...

But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as walking on the road; the perspective to say the very...

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s decision to get engaged while in prison as his “positive statement that life will go on,” his affirmation of the power of love.

From our perspective, all savings is good, and I’m loathe to criticize it until we see detailed plans. But the main question it raises is to what extent does this encourage or discourage long-term savings?

Mental illness turns people inwards. That’s what I reckon. It keeps us forever trapped by the pain of our own minds[…]

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

When the convert emerges from the water, the world seems changed. The world has not changed, it is always wonderful and horrible, iniquitous and filled with beauty. But now, after baptism, the eyes that see...

It’s not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine.”-Cynthia”Doesn’t make yours any more fun to bear.”-Liza”No. But it does help with the self-pity.”- Cynthia

What you remembered? Probably. More or less. Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you...

In painting, three things must be considered – the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

And here’s the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty...

One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict...

The way you SEE your life SHAPES your life.How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships.

Sometimes an outside perspective is the clearer perspective.

Espionage is the world’s second oldest profession.

We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.

The best things in life aren’t things.

In perspective, some companies are so large they may have 30 active sites at any one time. It’s a lot harder to control a number of different sites, but they know what they need to...

Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.

I don’t know that thin and pretty is what Nat is supposed to be, though. Does that make any sense?”If she’d been holding on to any illusions about how much she liked Vince Grasso-not lusted...

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generalities...

Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, ‘Wake up! Love! Pray!

Fear is and has always been dead. It’s how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you...

Life is too important to take seriously.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

History looks queer when you’re standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it’s being made.

…and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn’t properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves…

Once the blinders are off, it’s rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Any coward can instill fear. It’s easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that’s power.

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person...

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that’s handed down to us.

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.