Quotes About Perspective

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

At times it seems we require more grace to lose our wealth than to lose our life!

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

To change your language you must change your life.

Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so Im able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

You never know, life is short but it's wide

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

Life takes on the meaning that you give it.

People say, 'My phone sucks.' No, it doesn't! The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone.

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

An experience like that changes your perspective on life and on the world