Quotes About Perspective

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

Lasting change happens when people see for themselves that a different way of life is more fulfilling than their present one.

Is the cinema more important than life?

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

Music is not everything in life. If a young musician looks at it that way, then he can just play his instrument like putting a nail into a wall.

I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.

Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. [at least it will feel like it!]