Libba Bray Quotes

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

There's nothing "wrong" with anything. "Wrong" is a relative term, indicating the opposite of that which you call "right." Yet, what is "right"? Can you be truly objective in these matters? Or are "right" and "wrong" simply descriptions overlaid on events and circumstances by you, out of your decision about them?

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.

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

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

Everything I think in life is about context and intention.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

What is a bad thing anyway? A bad thing is something that is different than what I want. Who gets to decide what the bad thing is? Jerry and Esther watched the mother bird lay her eggs in the nest, and then the neighbor's cat ate the baby bird. Esther said "bad cat!" And the cat said, "good bird!

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

Evil is that which one believes of others.

I've also learned from [Dalai Lama] that we make the world by how we choose to look at it. In any situation you can make it constructive or dismaying, depending on that powerful computer we call the mind.

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

Reality is a question of perspective.

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.

So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time

Moral: It all depends.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

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.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

I like delivering a message, but what I find interesting is providing those details in a different context. Then the readers can make up their minds what it means.

Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.