Quotes About Perspective

Make the right decisions in life and you'll never have to worry about saving $3 a day on lattes.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?

Life is too short to dust every week.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

When I'm photographing I see life.

If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don't hold on to the ball.

The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.

You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.