Quotes About Perspective

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.

What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

Life can't always be good, and life can't always be bad. That just holds true. I've learned a lot from that statement, and I think about it, all the time.

Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.