Quotes About Perspective

For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

Life is painful, suffering is optional.

Your field of focus determines what you find in life.

You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't.

Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

I wish you could see some of the girls I have genuinely had crushes on in my life. They're not the girls you would assume.

I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

You are responsible for how your life turns out, and your attitude shapes that life for better or worse.