Quotes About Perspective

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.

Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

When one being gets into the mood of life he can bring millions to life. When one fellow gets into the suicidal mood, he can kill thousands along with him.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.

A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.

Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.