Quotes About Perspective

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. Happiness is in your mind, not in the circumstance.

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life.

Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.

Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.

The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.

If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.