Quotes About Perspective

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

Life isn't pretty but it sure is beautiful.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.

My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.

Reality is negotiable.

The way you treat life, life will treat you back. Make sure you're happy with whatever is going on in your life.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

Sometimes it is hard to see in life. If the fog rolls in we can't see anything. Most people get caught up in life that they forget the purpose of life is to be happy.

Life is a near-death experience.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I'd had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.