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Quotes About Perspective

We are the hero of our own story.
~ Mary McCarthy
We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
The biggest things in life are not materials.
~ Carlos Slim
Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.
~ Charles L. Allen
There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don't have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.
~ Craig Stone
Everything I've experienced, things that my friends have experienced and we talk about, things that are on the news - all aspects of life are in my message.
~ Damian Marley
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
~ Daniel Barenboim
I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art.
~ Daniel Pinkwater
Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.
~ David Icke
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
~ Eric Idle
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?
~ Ernie J Zelinski
Gratitude changes your perspective about life. You see the future, experience the present, and remember the past in a dramatically different way.
~ Erwin McManus
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
~ Albert Einstein
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
~ Aldous Huxley
People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
~ Angelina Jolie
I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
~ Ben Okri
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
~ Bill Crawford
Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
~ Boy George
A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.
~ Brene Brown
Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.
~ Byron Katie
Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.
~ Hugh Jackman
We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
~ Isabel Allende
So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.
~ James Clavell