Quotes About Perspective

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

Don't take life too seriously.

The movie of my life must be really low budget.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

If you want your life to be different you have to start reacting to life differently.

Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

In our age of increasing distractions it's more important than ever to find ways to maintain perspective and remember that life is brief and tender.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

As a child, I didn't know what I didn't have. I'm thankful for the challenges early on in my life because now I have a perspective on the world and kind of know what's important.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.