Elaine ScarryHow one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
About This Quote
This quote by Lisa See is about how one's perception of the world is influenced by the things he sees. Is the girl walking alongside them? The boy walking towards them? The people walking past them? The buildings around them? Each thing, every person, every place has a different significance that changes the way you see things. When you are walking through life, you carry with you these feelings, these perceptions that are shaped by everything that surrounds you.
Some Similar Quotes
- Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
- She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people...
- Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
- It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
- Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.