Quotes About Perspective

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you're not using?

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Do not be sad that you have suffered, be glad that you have lived.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.