Quotes about Perspective

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.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.

T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.

I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one. Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer's story. And the whole story is what I'm after.