Quotes About Perspective

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

When there is no longer a cyclone, there is no longer an eye. So the storms, crises and sufferings of life are a way of finding the eye.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.

I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.