Jasper Fforde Quotes

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Please remember, no matter what you go through in life, somebody else might have it harder.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic jams and minor quibbles with my husband Daniel pale in comparison with the worries that were faced on the home front and battlefield during the Second World War.

I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

You only recognize how good something is if you've been through the bad.

I don't sit around feeling sorry for myself. There's always somebody who's a lot worse off than you.

The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is.

Others can measure their visions by what we see.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.

The other thing that's useful for me is this notion of the absolute versus the relative:if we walk out and it's a beautiful morning, it's only a beautiful morning because we don't have a broken leg or hemorrhoids or something.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.