Quotes About Perspective

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life.

We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Ask many of us who are disabled what we would like in life and you would be surprised how few would say, 'Not to be disabled.' We accept our limitations.

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a little better.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.