Quotes about Perspective

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Life and success are about what you choose to believe.

Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.

I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.

Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story... One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed.

Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.

I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.

For green is love and luck just as it is jealousy and envy

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.