Mitch Albom Quotes

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

We look up at the same stars and see such different things." - Jon Snow

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

One place exists as their interpretation of it. For the people living and thriving inside of it, it's another place.

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

What darkness to you is light to me

Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

The world is how we see the world. Some people see the world good, the other people see the world bad. Every person has an idea of the world with a subjective [viewpoint].

The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.

There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

What you see from here is not what you see from there.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don’t know something for yourself, you just can’t be sure.

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.