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Quotes About Perspective

I have gradually confused photography with life.
~ Jerry Uelsmann
I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.
~ Sebastiao Salgado
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
~ Seneca the Younger
When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
~ Steven Spielberg
You could be laughing one day about the same issues that you're crying about the next day, so that's life.
~ Taraji P. Henson
We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.
~ Junot Diaz
The things that matter most in life....Aren't things.
~ Marie Avgeropoulos
One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.
~ Marthe Bibesco
Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.
~ Charlie Munger
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
~ Donald Miller
When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
~ Epictetus
You are your state of mind. Your state of mind creates your view, or your window, on life.
~ Frederick Lenz
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
~ Brad Meltzer
There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!
~ Carl Rogers
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
~ Yann Martel
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
~ Christopher Reeve
The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because 'these are the good old days' now.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
Being attractive in life is not something as static as a single frame in a picture.
~ Hrithik Roshan
And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.
~ Ibn Hazm
It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.
~ James Altucher
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
~ James Bryce
It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal