Quotes About Perspective

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

I've always told my children that life is like a layer cake. You get to put one layer on top of the other, and whether you frost it or not is up to you.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days.

Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.

I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.

I learned that you can't have any expectations with life. You never know what's going to happen.

If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

When you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

Life at best is bittersweet.