I think it's helpful to remind white ethnics that they, too, came here in boats; that they, too, lived in slums; that they, too, had yellow fever; that they, too, were stigmatized as incorrigible; that they, too, had the highest homicide rates and the highest incarceration rates and the highest rates of mental illness; and that everything that was said about them in those days is now being said about Salvadorans, Dominicans, African Americans, Mexicans, Vietnamese, and Cambodians in our inner cities. —Tom Hayden More about this quote Tags: history perspective poverty America whiteness immigration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. —Harry S. Truman More about this quote Tags: perspective depression recession Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: perspective growth decay richness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later. —Tracee Ellis Ross More about this quote Tags: wisdom perspective choice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. —Victor Hugo More about this quote Tags: beauty perspective mountains gardens Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. —Arthur Schopenhauer More about this quote Tags: life perspective interest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to. —Sophie Kinsella in Remember Me? More about this quote Tags: perspective age thirteen crushes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. It's all a matter of how you look at it. —Penelope Ward in Stepbrother Dearest More about this quote Tags: life perspective blessing hardship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone. —Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays More about this quote Tags: perspective death sadness body guilt corpse Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. —Russell Baker More about this quote Tags: perspective age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. —Ashleigh Brilliant More about this quote Tags: future past perspective Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes. —Jack Handey More about this quote Tags: humor perspective criticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email